Mac Data Recovery Guru | Recover Deleted Files in OS X

Mac Deleted File Recovery Software

Mac Data Recovery Guru is the most modern, the most technologically advanced, and the easiest to use mac data recovery software available.

We would not state that if we could not back it up, but we can – instantly and risk free. Download the Free Demo of Mac Data Recovery Guru to be able to quickly see it in action for yourself. This shows you previews of your deleted files, allowing you to see what data can be recovered.

Mac Data Recovery with Data Recovery Guru

The Mac Data Recovery Guru Start Screen

Mac Data Recovery Guru works by employing content-based file scanning. This is a different approach to traditional forms of data recovery which attempt to repair the device in question, which when they go wrong will write over the data you were trying to retrieve in the first place. Our method opens the device in read-only mode, and will search through the entire device for files, or pieces of files, that are present. It reassembles the data it finds into regular files on the fly. Sound complicated? It is, but after years of refinement it appears to the user as a seamless process, and is as easy as browsing through your regular files in the Finder. In fact, it looks almost the same:

Mac Data Recovery Guru Browsing Deleted Files

Browsing Deleted Files with the Mac Data Recovery Guru product line.

Although this looks similar to the Finder, these are deleted files being displayed that can be recovered.
Frequently Asked Questions:

What kinds of devices do the data recovery products work on?

The short answer is any device which acts as a drive on your Mac. However the device does not have to be visible in the Finder as the Recovery Guru line can see and scan devices which OS X does not show. To see if your device is usable, open the Recovery Guru product and click on the “Drives” tab on the main window. It will show you everything that can be seen.

The long answer is that it works on devices such as these (this is not an exhaustive list, but a series of examples):

Disks: Macintosh disks (HFS filesystems, HFS+, HFSX filesystems), Windows disks (NTFS, FAT filesystems), Linux disks (Ext2, Ext3, Ext4 filesystems), Unix disks (XFS, UFS filesystems).
Digital Cameras: (Kodak, Minolta, Nikon, Canon, Fuji, Olympus, Sigma).
Mobile Phones: Android, Nokia, Motorola, Palm, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Samsung, Sanyo, Siemens, Sony Ericsson, Panasonic, Kyocera, Blackberry.
Miscellaneous devices: USB pen drives, Memory Cards for cameras and portable devices, CD’s/DVD’s, MP3 Players, PlayStations, X-Boxes, Wii’s, Palm devices.

What if my device is not appearing at all?

Mac Data Recovery Guru can often still see it and recover deleted files back from it, even in some severe cases. Click on the “Devices” tab next to “Volumes” to see every device that is available. Download the free demo and see.

What if I have completely formatted my device?

It makes no difference if the device has been completely formatted 100 times or still has a filesystem. Our programs will search through the entire device irrespectively and pick up any data remnants, which formatting a drive does not affect.

Can anything stop it?

The only things that can typically deter it are the following:
One is if the file you want back has been written over since you deleted it (but your chances are usually pretty good, if you run the demo you will see many files that you deleted years ago).

Two is if the device has been secure-erased, in which case nothing can get it back, with the exception of some data on some SSD drives.

How can I be sure that the Recovery Guru line will recover the files that I want?

Download the free trial. It will allow you to preview all of your recoverable files. If you see what you are after, then you can purchase it and the license file will be immediately sent to you which will register your copy.

My Drive is physically damaged or failing. It won’t show up at all. Is there any point in trying these programs?

The drive does not need to be visible in the Finder for it to be recoverable with our programs, and drives will often be recoverable even when they are not visible at all. If you run the free trial and see if your drive is present under the “Drives” tab of the main window (if it’s not already under the “Volumes” tab) it will show you if your device is visible to the operating system or not.

Why doesn’t the Recovery Guru line allow me to only search for specific file types, to increase the speed?

In order to search for deleted files, each byte of free space on a disk has to be read. The number of filetypes being searched for and displayed does not effect the speed of the process. The speed is dependent on how fast the disk can be read.

Why aren’t the names of the files shown?

Filenames are not stored as part of the file, they are stored in a complex part of the filesystem. After a file is deleted the Recovery Guru product searches for the content of the file itself, which is the most reliable method of recovering any file or remnant of the file that exists. It is not generally feasible to search for the filename of a deleted file, because that is stored in the HFS Filesystem at the beginning of the disk. To compensate for this the Recovery Guru product shows live file previews that you can browse through, allowing rapid identification of the desired files to be recovered. Additionally, it is fast to recover an entire folder of filetypes to the Finder, and then search through those files using Spotlight. And finally, some filetypes do preserve the filenames because they are stored within the files themselves. Most music files (MP3′s, AAC’s, etc) are like this. They also preserve album artwork within the file. Just import the files into an MP3 player to be able to see this information.

What are the requirements to run the Recovery Guru line?

Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard” or greater.

What kind of data can I get back?

Here is a list of commonly recovered file types:

(Note: Although this is a list of supported file formats, there is often more data that can be recovered. For example: Mac Data Recovery Guru will find all text on a device, no matter where it is located (be it in a Word document, in an email, or a web page). It will also find files embedded inside of other files (for example, it will find JPEG’s embedded in PDF’s, or Photoshop files embedded in Illustrator files). Therefore you will often find a lot more data being undeleted off of your drive than is determined by the filetypes listed here, but this list is by no means conclusive as it will recover more data than is shown in the filetypes listed.)

Mac Data Recovery Guru contains extra support to:

Recover Mac 3GPP video file (.3gp) Files
Recover Mac 3DS 3D file (Bryce 3D Strata 3D Cheetah3D etc) (.3ds) Files
Recover Mac mp4 video (.mp4) Files
Recover Mac QuickTime Media (.mov) Files
Recover Mac QuickBooks (No Extension) Files
Recover Mac Mail (Mail.app sent email) (.emlx) Files
Recover Mac Mail (Mail.app received email) (.emlx) Files
Recover Mac Microsoft MYOB (No Extension) Files
Recover Mac MacroMedia Freehand (.fh10) Files
Recover Mac MacroMedia Director (No Extension) Files
Recover Mac m4v video (.m4v) Files
Recover Mac BMP image (.bmp) Files
Recover Mac Automator Workflow (.wflow) Files
Recover Mac AppleWorks Document (.cwk) Files
Recover Mac 3GPP2 video file (.3g2) Files
Recover Mac HTML (.html) Files
Recover Mac Adobe InCopy (.incx) Files
Recover Mac Kodak (.DCR) Files
Recover Mac Adobe InDesign (.indd) Files
Recover Mac Adobe Photoshop (.psd) Files
Recover Mac M4A (iTunes music) (.m4a) Files
Recover Mac Adobe After Effects (.aep) Files
Recover Mac M4P (iTunes encrypted music) (.m4p) Files
Recover Mac MRW Minolta 7D (.MRW) Files
Recover Mac AIFF sound (.aiff) Files
Recover Mac DreamWeaver Actionscript (.as) Files
Recover Mac EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) (.eps) Files
Recover Mac FileMaker 7 & 8 Database (.fp7) Files
Recover Mac RealMedia (.rm) Files
Recover Mac PowerCADD (.pc6) Files
Recover Mac iCal Events (.ics) Files
Recover Mac ASF movie (.asf) Files
Recover Mac ArcView Design Drawing (.dgn) Files
Recover Mac Quark Xpress (.qxd) Files
Recover Mac Stuffit SIT (.sit) Files
Recover Mac Maya 3D (.mp) Files
Recover Mac Apple Logic Express and Logic Pro Project (.lso) Files
Recover Mac Microsoft PowerPoint Documents (.ppt) Files
Recover Mac Flash fla (.fla) Files
Recover Mac Nikon (.NEF) Files
Recover Mac Canon CRW (.CRW) Files
Recover Mac XLSX (.xlsx) Files
Recover Mac Tiny Book (No Extension) Files
Recover Mac Safari Bookmarks (.txt) Files
Recover Mac JMP statistics software (.jmp) Files
Recover Mac TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) (.tiff) Files
Recover Mac EazyDraw (.ezdraw) Files
Recover Mac Adobe Illustrator (.ai) Files
Recover Mac Apple GarageBand AIF Sound (.aif) Files
Recover Mac Mathematica (.nb) Files
Recover Mac Final Draft (.fdr) Files
Recover Mac MIDI sound (.mid) Files
Recover Mac C Source code (.c) Files
Recover Mac Fuji (.RAF) Files
Recover Mac Olympus (.ORF) Files
Recover Mac Apple Pages (.pages) Files
Recover Mac Painter (No Extension) Files
Recover Mac GIMP (.Graphics) (.xcf) Files
Recover Mac Cinema4D (.c4d) Files
Recover Mac QuickTime Image (.qtif) Files
Recover Mac AVI (.Audio Video Interleaved) movie (.avi) Files
Recover Mac OpenDocument Spreadsheet (.OpenOfficeorg & others) (.ods) Files
Recover Mac RAR archive (.rar) Files
Recover Mac Multi-Ad Creator Pro (No Extension) Files
Recover Mac Keychain File (.keychain) Files
Recover Mac VectorWorks (No Extension) Files
Recover Mac WMV video (.wmv) Files
Recover Mac Bryce 3D (.br4) Files
Recover Mac Apple AddressBook & Backup (.abbu) Files
Recover Mac FileMaker 5 Database (.fp5) Files
Recover Mac Ami Pro Lotus Word Processing (.SAM) Files
Recover Mac Apple iDVD (.dvdproj) Files
Recover Mac Mail (mbox standard mailbox file) (.txt) Files
Recover Mac Final Cut Pro (No Extension) Files
Recover Mac Microsoft Excel Documents (.xls) Files
Recover Mac bz2 compressed tar (.tarbz2) Files
Recover Mac Microsoft Word Documents (.doc) Files
Recover Mac Finale (.mus) Files
Recover Mac Apple Logic Express and Logic Pro Audio (.aif) Files
Recover Mac Flash swf (.swf) Files
Recover Mac MP3 (.mp3) Files
Recover Mac Canon CR2 (.CR2) Files
Recover Mac Ogg Vorbis (.ogg) Files
Recover Mac Google Earth KMZ Files (.kmz) Files
Recover Mac Apple Keynote Presentation (.key) Files
Recover Mac PageMaker (.pmd) Files
Recover Mac GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) (.gif) Files
Recover Mac Canvas X (.cvx) Files
Recover Mac PDF (.pdf) Files
Recover Mac gzip archive (.gz) Files
Recover Mac Portable Network Graphics (.png) (.png) Files
Recover Mac AppleScript (.scpt) Files
Recover Mac Abaton (.als) Files
Recover Mac OpenDocument Text (OpenOfficeorg & others) (.odt) Files
Recover Mac DocX (.docx) Files
Recover Mac mpeg media (.mpeg) Files
Recover Mac Raw Text (plain) (.txt) Files
Recover Mac RealBasic (.rb) Files
Recover Mac Reason (rps) (.rps) Files
Recover Mac RTF (Rich Text Format) text (.rtf) Files
Recover Mac Apple Compressor (.compressor) Files
Recover Mac RagTime (.rtd) Files
Recover Mac Stuffit SITX (.sitx) Files
Recover Mac JPEG (.jpg) Files
Recover Mac Targa image (.tga) Files
Recover Mac Digital Video & iMovie Movies (.dv) Files
Recover Mac TurboTax (No Extension) Files
Recover Mac Adobe LiveMotion (.liv) Files
Recover Mac WAV sound (.wav) Files
Recover Mac Apple GarageBand Project (.band) Files
Recover Mac WMA audio (.wma) Files
Recover Mac Cheetah3D (.jas) Files
Recover Mac WouldjaDraw (.wjdraw) Files
Recover Mac Apple iMovie projects (No Extension) Files
Recover Mac Sigma (.X3F) Files
Recover Mac binhex archive (.hqx) Files
Recover Mac Poser (.pz3) Files
Recover Mac FireFox Bookmarks (.html) Files

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