What is the best data recovery software for deleted files on iMac

macjack wrote:

If there is any chance of recovery at all your best bet is Prosoft Data Recovery.

https://www.prosofteng.com/datarescue-mac-data-recovery/

There is a free trial to see if it can recover what you need. But don't do another process on that drive until you've downloaded and run it.

Ideally you should use another bootable drive to download and run Data Rescue. Or booted from another Mac in firewire mode.

Depending on how valuable those files are to you, you can also use a professional recovery service, like DriveSavers but it is much more pricey.

http://www.drivesaverdatarecovery.com/

Free, probably Recuva. There are trial versions of most of the good paid programs but they are worthless as most of them limit you to only recovering a small amount of data without paying or only viewing the data without actually recovering it. This is pretty ****** because of the drive is failing and you run a recovery, can't actually recover it, and then run another recovery, in the time spent doing all that the drive could fail completely, past the point of a recovery being possible.

For paid programs, GetDataBack by Runtime Software is the absolute best, I also have used EaseUS and Stellar Phoenix. Stellar Phoenix makes a good program for recovering corrupted pictures as well as damaged or corrupted DVDs. Another Picture recovery software (that's free) is TestDisk and it's sister program PhotoRec. For Android recoveries the only one I use is DiskDigger.

Gary Kenyonnne wrote:

macjack wrote:

If there is any chance of recovery at all your best bet is Prosoft Data Recovery.

https://www.prosofteng.com/datarescue-data-recovery-mac/

There is a free trial to see if it can recover what you need. But don't do another process on that drive until you've downloaded and run it.

Ideally you should use another bootable drive to download and run Data Rescue. Or booted from another Mac in firewire mode.

Depending on how valuable those files are to you, you can also use a professional recovery service, like DriveSavers but it is much more pricey.

http://www.drivesaverdatarecovery.com/

Free, probably Recuva. There are trial versions of most of the good paid programs but they are worthless as most of them limit you to only recovering a small amount of data without paying or only viewing the data without actually recovering it. This is pretty ****** because of the drive is failing and you run a recovery, can't actually recover it, and then run another recovery, in the time spent doing all that the drive could fail completely, past the point of a recovery being possible.

For paid programs, GetDataBack by Runtime Software is the absolute best, I also have used EaseUS and Stellar Phoenix. Stellar Phoenix makes a good program for recovering corrupted pictures as well as damaged or corrupted DVDs. Another Picture recovery software (that's free) is TestDisk and it's sister program PhotoRec. For Android recoveries the only one I use is DiskDigger.

Stellar Phoenix ! Choose version as per your operating system.

It has very good data recovery rate. Good luck.

The best way to recover them is to restore them from your backup.

If there is any chance of recovery at all your best bet is Prosoft Data Recovery.

https://www.prosofteng.com/datarescue-mac-data-recovery/

There is a free trial to see if it can recover what you need. But don't do another process on that drive until you've downloaded and run it.

Ideally you should use another bootable drive to download and run Data Rescue. Or booted from another Mac in firewire mode.

Depending on how valuable those files are to you, you can also use a professional recovery service, like DriveSavers but it is much more pricey.

http://www.drivesaversdatarecovery.com/

You never kept backups ? not sure if about TM weather it can be backup up.

Restoring from backup would take presence using data tools or companies..,. Just hoping users learn a lesson from this. Or you could be like my mate and do the same stuff up's again and again.

While keep stuff in iCloud, i never rely on it ever.. If i don't have a local backup not connected to Mac somewhere, i

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Apple are not accountable for anything.. They provide a service to customers to store data with them... so u can get it back or sync to other devices. They are not responsible for any loss what so ever..

If they have "versioning" of files, that's one way, but if a loss is a loss in the cloud,, u can't blame them.... u gotta blame yourself by not keeping backups..

A Time machine of an OS is *not* a backup.. since its just one copy of it.... 2 copies minimum..

tobester70 wrote:

I did keep back ups - 6 years of Time Machine - but the disk they were saved to was the one that corrupted.

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If your data is important you should always have multiple backups. Local backups are best.

I agree, you can leave feedback for Apple here.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Knowing this, I don't use the cloud for backup. Also knowing how important reliable backups are I keep both a Time Machine backup and clones. You can use a cloning software like SuperDuper! or CarbonCopy Cloner.

The advanage of the clone is that it is bootable. So if anything happens to your internal drive, you can continue to work normally until it’s fixed. The advantage of TM is that it creates recursive backup, so you can restore a file or the entire drive from a certain point in time.