Flash memory cards are extensively used as external storage drives in various portable media devices. Digital cameras and camcorders are completely rely on memory cards to store the captured photos and recorded videos. In order to avoid the compatibility issues while using memory cards in different operating systems, all the memory cards use FAT file system.
Formatting a memory card after every use is quite common. Sometimes Mac users lose their files stored in their flash cards due to formatting. Since memory cards deals with media files like photos and videos, losing of which is really frustrating because a lost document file can be re-created with same information but photos and videos are non-reproducible.
Suppose if you have formatted memory card and lost your important files, no need to worry, because you can recover flash card after format with the help of efficient Mac memory card recovery software. Before discussing how does recovery utility retrieves data from formatted card let us see how formatting leads to loss of files.
- Sometimes your memory card becomes inaccessible due to various reasons like improper plug and play procedure i.e. removing memory card from media device when there is a read/write process in progress or virus infection, etc. In order to use such corrupted cards further, it needs to format. In case if the damaged card has some important files which are not backed up, then probability of losing data is more.
- There are times in which users unknowingly hit format on their memory cards without examining the contents and later they will realize that there were some essential files stored in the formatted card.
- Occasionally when you insert flash card into media device it pop up some message like format now. This is called format error which occurs due to errors in file system. Format is the only option to use such cards further. Suppose if the user has kept some needed files in such cards which are not backed up, then he or she might lose them.
No matter how you have lost files from flash card, it is very simple to recover files with the help of recovery software. Formatting or deleting a file will never erase the data from the stored drive instantly, only the pointer which points to the stored location of the file or index will be removed and space marked as available but actual data still exist on the stored sector until it is not overwritten with new data. Unfortunately such data is inaccessible without an index but recovery utility scans the card and extracts data with the aid of file attributes.
Remo Recover (Mac) – Media Edition is a trusted memory card recovery software which is specially developed for Macintosh computers. This tool facilitates you to undelete media files from different memory cards like SD card, xD card, CF card, memory stick and others. Using this utility you can recover all popular video audio and image file formats including RAW photo files. Free trial version of the software facilitates you to download and check the probability of recovery.