How to recover your lost and deleted AVI files from your MAC machine

"One fine morning I decided to empty some of my unused unwanted files on my Mac. Considering this I emptied and sent few videos to trash. Suddenly I realized that few important videos are also sent to trash. To add to my dismay I had also deleted them from trash. I was not sure how to get them back which are deleted from trash." 

Now coming to the transfer process, these AVI files can easily be used for sharing on different computers via SD card.  Here we present some of the situation which may cause data loss while working on a MAC machine.

Reasons for data loss.

•    By Enabling auto trash option,  files present in Trash Bin are automatically emptied every time    you log on to your Mac system.
•   If you accidentally or intentionally empty your Trash then the files located in Trash gets  permanently deleted from your Mac and you can never recover them.
•   You may trash and accidentally you delete few files without paying much intention while deleting  some unneeded ones.
•  Making use of Shift + Command + Delete keys will delete files from Trash 

Reliable Video Recovery software is used to retrieve deleted video files from Trash. It uses safe and exclusive technique to scan Mac hard drive and recovers lost, deleted, corrupt or damaged video files from Trash. With the utilization of this software, not only AVI files, but other files such as photos, videos and documents can be recovered from Mac hard drive and external storage drives on Mac OS X.

Procedure to Retrieve AVI video files:

1.       If your data is lost from any external hard drive then connect your external hard drive to your     Mac  machine.
2.     Download and install Stellar Phoenix Mac Photo Recovery application to your Mac machine
3.      Now Install the software and follow the instructions
4.     Select the Drive from which you want to recover videos and go to the next step
5.      Now press Scan Now
6.     The software starts the scanning process and displays all lost AVI files in a tree structure           directory.
7.     You can preview and recover your selected videos
8.     After choosing your selected files , you can save the recovered files to your desired   destination 

Tips

It is recommended that while recovery procedure both the source drive and the saved files destination drive to be kept separately. This precaution is taken to make sure that the files are not overwritten since recovery from overwritten data is extremely difficult in MAC.

What to look out for while recuperating lost or deleted photos from Micro SD Card?

With the boost in the popularity of digital technology, the risk of data loss is also increasing, once it takes place, the user has to suffer a lot. Digital data could be anything, professional or personal, but the storage media is not much different. The portable devices are one of the most common modes to store digital data; however, these devices use Micro SD cards to store photos videos and other data. After loss, it is essential to choose a reliable way of photo recovery from Micro SD card.

Micro SD card is a kind of external flash memory card, which is used to store digital information and usually used in Nintendo DS flash cards, portable media players, handheld GPS devices, expandable USB flash drives, digital cameras, and digital audio players. Initially, MicroSD cards were not offering much storage, but by the time they improved, the capacity with the maintenance of smaller size. Nowadays, the common size of a MicroSD card is (15x11x1) mm and storage capacity is from 28MB to 64GB. You can store a vast data in such tiny card and it is also supports a fast and reliable data transmission.

Photo loss is a very common issue with a MicroSD card, and it also does not consist with any kind of deleted photo storage section like Recycle bin on the computer. Therefore, if you have deleted photos intentionally or unintentionally from the MicroSD card, it will be a permanent delete and your complete data will be lost. However, there is also a proper way available to recover photos from MicroSD card, and that is recovery software.

When you delete or format the memory card, the hard drive only marks that place empty in the directory, but the data is still present in it. When you store any other photo or media file in the formatted card, the data gets overwritten on the present memory sector. So, you must take care that you will not store any data before recovery, if you want to recover it. For recovery, download and install Stellar Phoenix SD Card Recovery software  in your Windows PC and follow the below mentioned steps to retrieve your complete photos videos and other stored data in your MicroSD card.

Possible Causes of Photo Loss in MicroSD Card

There could be several reasons of photo loss and here we are going to discuss the most common causes.

Accidentally formatted Memory Card: 

Most of the times, people ignore the messages appearing at the time of MicroSD card connection and click on format option without checking. This is a very common reason of data loss. To avoid such issues, always read all the instruction and messages at the time of the MicroSD card run, weather it is inserted in the phone or computer.

Virus or Malware Infection: 

Viruses are the most common and dangerous programs that have the capability to delete photos or any data. If any virus program is executed, in the MicroSD card, the result is inaccessible photos or loss of photos. To avoid this, always check your computer weather it is infected with a virus or not and always scan it before you use the data in it.

Loss during Data Transfer:

Mostly, at the time of data transfer, if any kind of interruption occurs, it leads to the loss of the photos stored in the MicroSD. You must take care of things, which are in your hand to avoid such loss. Make sure any interruption do not happen at the time of data transfer. Do not pull out the memory card when the device is on. Eject SD card with the proper steps from computer after use.

Here's 5 Best Photo Recovery Software in 2015 for you to ease your decisions!

Photos are one of the most precious forms of our best moments. We store our images and other media files on our system so that we can find them easily whenever we need. However, at times, you may lose your files due to any factor, such as accidental deletion of some photos, error in the drive while transferring data, storage drive corruption, formatted drive, etc. All of these issues lead you to data loss for some files of the entire partition.

If you have also faced the similar issue do not panic. There are ways from where you can still recover your complete lost data from the disk. You just need to install a recovery tool and you will be able to recover all of them. There are many tools available which you can try to recover your lost media file or image files.

Best 5 Photo Recovery Software to Retrieve Your Lost Images:

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery (Paid)

Stellar Phoenix Photo recovery is a powerful tool that is capable to recover lost photos along with many other media files. This tool support various file formats as well as storage devices such as hard drives, optical disks, flash disks and built-in digital camera storage. It provides various scanning options to all of its users according to different situations.  You can preview the lost photos before your recovery. It is one of the most easy photo recovery software and provides a very interactive user interface so that user can communicate with the tool more easily. This tool is considered one of the best photo recovery software available for photo recovery. 

Stellar Photo Recovery is a really fast program it will not take more than half an hour to scan a 16 gigabyte USB flash drive completely. It also provides you the option to choose the file type extension for the files you want to recover, it will reduce your scanning time.

Main Features of the Software:

·         Support a wide range of multimedia files such as images, videos, audio

·     Provides recovery from all types of media devices such as flash drives, hard disks and digital    cameras.

·         Allows you to view all recoverable image files before initiating recovery process

      ·         Available for Both Mac and Windows operating systems 

Picture Rescue 2 PhotoRecovery Software (Paid)

This software allows you to recover lost photos as well as other media files with ease. It can provide photo recovery on various numbers of causes such as accidental deletion, reformatting or media corruption. It supports a wide range of media files including camera media files, mobile supported files, etc. This is one of the best photo recovery software that recovers all the lost photos from inaccessible storage media. This efficient tool is very easy to use and user do not have to be technically strong to use it.

Main Features of the Software:

·         It supports recovery of Lost and Accidentally Deleted Photos

·         Can recovers data Using Non-Destructive Reading

·         Supports Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP

·         Supports data recovery from a wide range of Digital Camera Media Types

     ·         Available for both PC as well as Mac

PhotoRec (Free)

PhotoRec is an exclusive product for photo recovery, which is compatible with Windows OS, OS X, DOS and DOS. This tool is a good competition for similar photo recovery software. It comes among one of the most popular free available tools for photo recovery. Its interface looks like a DOS-screen, so people who are not familiar with such screen may face issues to use it. However, it is best free available photo recovery program for computer skilled users.  

Main Features of the Tool:

·    This powerful photo recovery application is compatible with almost all the popular operating  systems, such as Windows OS, OS X, DOS and DOS

·         It supports recovery of over 20 file formats

·      It supports recovery of a deleted partition. This feature is available in very less photo recovery    programs in the market.  

EaseUs Photo Recovery (Paid)

This powerful photo recovery utility recovers photo, videos, and audios from digital cameras, memory cards, flash drives and hard disks. This efficient utility supports all popular file types for audio video and photos. This is a single solution to recover entire lost data in a single piece. Its scanning process searches all the lost files back to the system, you can configure this feature to reduce the scanning time.

Main Features of the Photo Recovery Tool

·         This tool support recovery of a wide range of image formats and some audio and video files.

·         Very less scanning time

·         less expensive

PC Inspector File Recovery(Free)

PC Inspector is an absolutely free photo recovery application. Its recovery process initiates from logical and physical drive so the users must be technically sound to use it properly. It scans all the images from the selected drives and recover them quickly. Its scanning process is quite fast so it will scan your complete drive in minimum time, however, this tool cannot scan corrupt storage media.

Common Features of the Software:

·      It support recovery of deleted images from both logical and physical hard drives;

·      It supports recovery of photos without header entry

·      It scan the the partitions automatically and find them even after erased or damaged boot sector or FAT

·      Provides file recovery with the original time and date stamp

Let us Compare Photo Recovery Software features

Name ->	Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery	Picture Rescue 2 Photo Recovery Software	PC Inspector File Recovery	PhotoRec	EaseUs Photo Recovery
Features
Multimedia File Type Support	65 file types including images, Audis and Video files	JPEG, PNG, GIF and TIFF files	Image, audio and video files of various popular formats.	20 file types including images, Audis and Video files	Image, audio and video files of various popular formats.
RAW image recovery	yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Installation time	Less than 20 sec	Less than 30 sec	Less than 20 sec	Less than 20 sec	Less than 20 sec
Size	10.1MB		3.3 MB	34 KB	360KB
File preview	yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Supported Devices	flash drives, hard disks and digital cameras, Optical media support	USB storage devices, Smart Media,major digital camera manufacturers, Optical media support	both logical and physical hard drives	Deleted partitions	digital cameras, memory cards, flash drives and hard disks.
Demo Versions Available	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Windows Support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Mac Support	Yes	Yes		Yes	No
Price for single license	$39	$19.95	Free	Free	$29.95
Licensing options	Single user	Single user	Single user	Single user	Single user

Conclusion:

    All the above mentioned tools are good and you can use any of them to recover your lost photos. However, as free tools have some limitations, so they cannot  support all the photos loss cases. Therefore, you may use a paid photo recovery tool when the loss is quite deep and you need complete photo recovery.  All of the above software are tried and tested and that is the reason Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery Software is kept in No.1 on our list!!

Why Eye Fi Mobi SD card’s ESP is becoming first choice for photographers!!!

With the advancement in new technology trends and devices, photographers are looking for more convenient and operational storage device instead of the old one. EyeFi Mobi SD cards are among the latest invention in SD cards. With these cards, Photographers can instantly click pictures, store and sync photos across mobile devices and tablets without the need of wi-fi network or PC. The Eye-fi card is well equipped to create its own wi-fi network

To establish the Eye fi Mobi Sd card you have to enter the 10 digit activation code. After doing that you can send your photos and videos to your iOS or Android device without the help of any cards or cables.

Eye-Fi is a company centered in Mountain View, California that manufactures SD memory cards and SDHC cards with Wi-Fi capabilities.

 Few Features of Eye Fi Mobi SD card which makes it so popular!

   
·         It has Wi-Fi built right into the SD memory card. Using this feature one can directly upload photos and videos over the wi-fi network instantly.

·         You can clear up the memory card space and reuse the SD card for more storage.

·         The Eye-Fi SD card is compatible with both Windows and Mac OS X on smartphones or tablet (running iOS or Android).

·         Photographers can directly upload photos to online websites. They also can upload and share photos and videos through various social media websites.

·         It saves time and is fast

·         You can share your photos while travelling. Be it a planned moment or an unplanned click, you do not have to wait for cables and wires for transferring and sharing your photos and videos.

·         It offers good connectivity and is compact enough to store and handle.

·         It can easily add Wi-Fi networks where one has access to.

·         Eye fi mobi cards are hot-spots in themselves.

·                     It can easily add Wi-Fi networks where one has access to.
·          Eye fi mobi cards are hot-spots in themselves

·        Apart from all the above features, one challenge which is very common is that unless and until a photo is being uploaded/transferred, the chances of data loss still persists. It is always advisable to the photographers to keep a backup of the work. But there are few cases where one cannot avoid the data loss situation.

·         Memory card error

·         Memory Card Corruption

·         Accidental deletion

·         Unintentional or Intentional Format

·         Improper handling or mishandling

To recover photos from your Eye-fi mobi SD card, you have to rely on third party photo recoverysoftware which also can be used in various other photo loss situations .  If you have not used the SD card for any more data storage then you can recover data from your eyefi mobi SD card. 

Wrapping Up

There are many competent SD cards in the market. For example Trancend wi-fi 32 GB SDHC card, EZshare 8GB wi-fi SDHC cards eyc which can be a fair competition to Eye-fi SD cards. But again the choice depends on the needs of the photographers. Eye-fi Mobi cards have less storage space as compared to the price. You may get other Wi-Fi Sd cards in the same price range  with more storage space but the other SD cards will have certain limitation.

If we do keep the price factor aside, as a photographer, I myself will rate Eye-fi higher than other Sd  cards due to its impressive wireless range, its ability to real time photo sharing and speed. Also its fast photo syncing, cloud storage and photo sharing capabilities makes it stand apart from other wifi SD cards.

Above all, Eye fi mobi SD cards are good in creating a back-up of photos also. So grab a DSLR or point and shoot and forget about wires or cables.  Everything can happen just instantly!