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Thursday, October 10, 2013

Introduction of Data Recovery for Mac OS X



Mac OS X Introduction

Mac OS X Server 1.0, released on March 16, 1999, it is the first operating system released into the retail market by Apple Computer based on their acquisition of NeXT. It was the final release of the product code named Rhapsody, which was an interim combination of the OpenStep system (Mach OS and OpenStep API) and Mac OS 8.

Mac OS X is an advanced Operating System based on the rock-solid UNIX. Clear design made the creative Mac safe, easy, high compatible and outstanding. The powerful features of UNIX, Mac OS X completely show up.

Mac Data Loss and Data Recovery Technologies

Speaking its main file systems, HPS and HFS are the Apple Macintosh systems for referencing stored data and hard drives. Regarding the data recovery on these two file systems, it is different from the data recovery from FAT/NTFS files systems. There are below several errors that might cause data loss.
Accidentally delete Mac files
  • 'Command + Del' without backup
  • 'Delete All' when deleting not-so-good photos
  • Delete files instead of saving by accidentally pressing wrong button
  • Empty trash without backup
Format or reformat memory cards
  • '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.
Improper operation
  • Pull out SD card while the camera is on
  • Turn off the camera during a write process
  • Factory setting of device without backup
  • Use card between different cameras
  • Any type of file system corruption in camera storage device, hard drive and USB flash drive.
Other situations
  • Lose files during transferring files from storage device to Mac computer
  • Camera is turned off un-intentionally
As a computer user, you should protect your valuable data from hackers, viruses, human error, power surges/off, hard drive disk failures and other unexpected unknown situations, for both Mac and Windows. However, both Mac and Windows offer limited solution for data loss; luckily, you can use data recovery software to salvage data back.

There are many data recovery works on Mac and Mac-based external hard drive, USB drive, digital cameras, SD card, etc. storage devices. They can assist to recover 500+ file formats with data scanning and searching technologies. If you are facing the problem of data loss, before choosing recovery software for Mac, the data recovery evaluation and comparison is the first necessary step.
Mac Data Recovery Software Pick

Softtote Data Recovery for Mac is an innovative data recovery toolkit to give you the choice of getting lost valuable data documents back from lost, deleted, logical corrupted and formatted hard drive, digital camera, Pod, USB drive, MP3, and MP4 player, SD card in Mac OS.

2). MacKeeper
You dont need to possess some special skills or knowledge in order to retrieve the accidentally lost data on your Mac. The two necessary conditions are patience and concentration, as this process will take both time and effort.

Disk Doctors' Journalized Volume feature saves past scans of individual volumes. You can pull data from these scans rather than rescanning the same volumes in the future.

See Also:

1.      Mac Data Recovery Software Comparison

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