Is it Possible to Recover Deleted X3F Photo for Mac

A while ago I trashed a folder of X3F photos from my MacBook only to discover that they were missing a couple of days ago (not happy!). After some testing and internet searching I came up with a solution that may be useful to someone else in the future so there may be no need for panic. If this does not work then the need for panic may arise.

When you delete X3F photos on Mac, the photo itself isn't deleted, just the index entry that says where the data for those files is located. The space containing the deleted photos is also now marked as free space so it is available to the system for any new files to be written there instead. So it is very, very important to not take any more pictures to hard disk or memory card from which you want to get back deleted X3F photos for Mac.

You can recover deleted X3F photos for Mac on your own with a good photo recovery software. Quick Internet searches will give you a tremendous number of programs that advertise lost photo recovery, and most of them cost between $25 - $40. And I'm using a program called Mac X3F Photo recovery tool that does the very same job but just cost me $69.95. Now I will tell you how to get back deleted X3F photos for Mac by Photo Recovery.

Hard Disk and Memory Cards do not immediately re-use space from deleted X3F photos on mac and leave it there for a while after the X3F file has been deleted; therefore you can recover deleted X3F photos for Mac. A Photo that has been deleted a while ago still has a good chance of being recovered, but the chances of an absolute undelete decrease the longer you leave it, because it is only a matter of time before that space is re-used and overwritten. So the Key to recovering your deleted X3F photos for Mac is to act immediately and you will be almost guaranteed to have your X3F photos back.

Mac X3F Photo recovery tool recovers lost and deleted digital photos, music, and video files on Mac OS X 10.4.11 and above. It supports both Intel and PowerPC based Macintosh and is an Apple Universal application supporting recovery from IDE / ATA / SATA / SCSI hard disk drives, SD Cards, CF Cards, XD Cards, Memory Sticks, external Zip drives, FireWire and USB hard drives.

If you have deleted X3F photos from your MacBook and want to recover most of those, PLEASE STOP SAVING ANY MORE X3F PHOTO FOR MAC. That's because the more you write new data on your mac, the chances of recovering old and deleted X3F photo for mac becomes less.

After the installation, lauch Mac X3F Photo recovery tool. The main panel shows like this:

The local and the external drives that are detected with Mac X3F Photo recovery tool. Select the hard drive that you connected as slave, and click the Next button to proceed to the next step.

On clicking the Next button, a new window pops up. The various types of photo files, audio files, and video files are displayed, as shown in the figure below. You can select specifically, the file types you wish to recover, or select all the file types, if you wish to recover all the media files, based on your requirement.

Note: By default, all the photo, audio and video files are selected for recovery. You can disable this feature, by clicking the Deselect all button.

After selecting the file types, click the Recover button, to start to recover digital X3F photos for Mac. A new window displays, the progress made in the recovery process, and also lists the number of files that have been found. You can use the Show selected file types option, to display the file types you selected in the previous step.

Once the scanning process is completed, the recovered media files are grouped together and listed in their respective folders. Clicking any of the folder displays, the recovered files of the respective file type, under that folder,

Once the files are recovered, you can select a particular file, and click on the View button, to preview the image.

The last step is to save all the recovered media files to a destination drive. You can select specific files for saving, or, click on the Select All button, to select all the files that have been recovered.

Click the Save button, and select the destination drive, onto which you want the files to be saved. You can also use the Save scan info button to save information about a particular scan task.

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The X3F file type is a RAW image photo taken by digital cameras with X3 sensors. The X3F format is popular because the files contain compressed raw data with a preview image and all the information needed to archive top-quality photographs and to render them to output files for different uses.

Mac X3F Photo recovery tool can be not cheap because technicians may need to disassemble your hard drive to fix the problem. Hard drive data recovery is usually done in a 'clean room' as hard drives are sealed to avoid errors caused by dust or other particles. Also hard drives are finely tuned machinery and it takes specialist equipment to read the platters from a physically damaged drive. So you can use Mac X3F Photo recovery tool to recover deleted X3F photos for Mac.

Accidental deleting

• "Command + Del" without backup
• "Delete All" when deleting not-so-good photos
• Delete pictures instead of saving by accidentally pressing wrong button
• Emptying trash without backup

• "Media/Drive is not formatted would you like to format now?"
• Mac OS X prompts for disk initialization when digital camera memory card is just connected.

Virus infection/attack

Unexpected power off

Other reasons

• Factory setting of device
• Losing photos during transferring photos from storage device to PC/laptop
• Pulling out card while the camera is on
• Turning off the camera during a write process