Need help to recover 5 deleted videos

Hello, I was trying to move 68 videos from Photos app on MacOs Big Sur Macbook Air, to my external ssd, and it showed that it moved all of them. I did Export > Export 68 original videos and saved them on ssd.

After I did this I went to Photos, deleted these 68 videos and in Recently Deleted I also deleted them all.

After that error pops up, that 5 videos failed to export, then I looked in SSD it was true that only 63 videos moved.

I am so frustratred about this and so sad, I cant believe this is happening on my birthday, so unlucky. Please help someone.

I need to find out these things:

  1. How to open that error log again, where it showed the names of 5 video files that failed to move?
  2. How can I recover deleted videos? I tried Disk Drill free version, Wondershare Recoverit and some others, but free versions wont help me find all the deleted videos, and the names are different, why is this happening to me, please help…
  3. Is it worth to buy Disk Drill Pro version for 99 euros? I am from Europe and if I have to pay this price just to find out that it wont work, I will be even more sad.
  4. I cant keep using my macbook air normally, because, I dont want these deleted videos be overwritten in memory or whatever..

Thanks.

My Macbook air is 2017 model I think.

MacBook Air

Posted on Mar 21, 2022 5:15 AM

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Mar 21, 2022 12:56 PM in response to danieliusx

Sorry, I cannot help with recovery software. It is too long ago that I tested some. I liked Disk Drill when I tested it, but I never tried it to recover videos. I wish I could give you a better birthday present.

Have you been using iCloud Photos?

If the videos have been in iCloud not primarily on your Mac, the data recovery may not find them on your Mac, then contact Apple Support and ask if they can help to recover the videos from the backup of their Cloud servers.




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