Photo recovery software

Can anyone recommend image recovery software suitable for MacBook? Have tried Sandisk rescue Pro but very clunky and does not appear compatible for M1 chip.


Any suggestions would be welcomed.

MacBook Air (M1, 2020)

Posted on Jul 17, 2023 3:27 AM

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Posted on Jul 17, 2023 6:40 AM

Your best bet for image recovery is from your Time Machine backup.


When you move an item to the Trash and empty the Trash on the Mac startup drive, the operating system will identify the storage space used by that deleted image as reclaimable for other system storage needs and after that happens, it will not be recoverable by any means.


If that photo was on iCloud, you have a 30-day sliding window from the deletion time when iCloud will allow you to recover deleted files.


In my opinion, so-called Recovery software is not worth the money (even if free) and what it may recover may not be intelligible by software expecting to open an image.

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Jul 17, 2023 6:40 AM in response to Frankfiz

Your best bet for image recovery is from your Time Machine backup.


When you move an item to the Trash and empty the Trash on the Mac startup drive, the operating system will identify the storage space used by that deleted image as reclaimable for other system storage needs and after that happens, it will not be recoverable by any means.


If that photo was on iCloud, you have a 30-day sliding window from the deletion time when iCloud will allow you to recover deleted files.


In my opinion, so-called Recovery software is not worth the money (even if free) and what it may recover may not be intelligible by software expecting to open an image.

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