How to Recover Deleted Photos from iPhoto?

Photos are captured during special occasions like marriages, birthdays, trips and many more. iPhoto is a digital photography software application developed by Apple Inc. It is compatible with Mac Operating System. The main features of iPhoto it helps to import, edit, print, organize and share digital photos. It is often compared to Google’s Picasa, Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Windows Photo Gallery. iPhoto supports all the common image formats like jpg, jpeg, gif, png etc. Many users opt for iPhoto because of its numerous advanced features.

In iPhoto application, there can be possible deletion of photos due to various reasons like due to accidental deletion, virus attacks, emptying the trash or human mistake. If you cannot find the photos, then you come up with the consideration that the photos have been deleted permanently. But it is not, if it is deleted also still it remains in the system until you overwrite with some other new file. You can get back the deleted photos using best recovery software and that is iPhoto recovery software. This software is mainly developed to retrieve iPhoto photos.

Reasons for the deletion of photos

• Accidental deletion: By mistake if you delete the important photos and empty the trash without checking the files in it, it results in deletion of photos. Get more information about recovering of photos from trash by clicking this link www.digitalphotorecovery.org/recover-digital-photos-from-trash.html.
• Synchronization error: If any interruptions occur during synchronization of iPhotos between Mac Operating System and digital camera, then it leads to a loss of photos.
• Unintentional formatting: Accidentally if you format the drive where iPhoto library is stored, then all the photos on the iPhoto will be deleted.
• Virus attack: If any one of the photos is virus affected, then it easily infects all the other photos. If you perform scanning using antivirus software to get rid off from virus, then it leads to a deletion of virus infected photos.
• Power shut down: If there is a sudden power shut down while accessing photos of iPhoto application, then it targets to a deletion of that photo. Improper shutdown of system also results in deletion of photos.

Assume that you have transferred 1000 photos into iPhoto library. You found that 100 photos are not transferred to it. If you try to open iPhoto, following message appears,

“Photos found in the iPhoto library are not imported. Would you like to import them?”

If you click on “Yes” option, then it creates empty folder and pop up an error message.

“Unreadable files. The following files could not be imported”

For these entire problems, the suitable solution to retrieve iPhoto photos is by making use of iPhoto recovery tool.

Features of iPhoto recovery

iPhoto recovery is a tool that makes the user task easy to recover deleted photos from iPhoto. This tool has the capacity to retrieve iPhoto photos from external devices such as USB drives, Flash drives, CF cards, External Hard drives and FireWire devices. It supports to recover photos of 14 different image formats. iPhoto recovery tool helps to recover RAW digital photos which are captured by professional used cameras. You can also restore pictures from Time Machine (built in back up tool used in Mac) if you have deleted. It has user friendly interface and to use this tool, user does not require any kind of technical knowledge. Main benefit of this tool is providing advanced features in demo version like “Preview” and “Save “option, so that you can evaluate about the tool before buying original version.

Steps to know how to recover photos from iPhoto app

Step 1: First download and install iPhoto recovery tool to the system. Run the application. A window appears with three options “Recover Files”, “Recover Photos” and “Recover Volumes / Drives”. Select “Recover Photos” option to recover photos from iPhoto.

Figure 1: Main window

Step 2: From second screen choose “Recover Deleted Photos”. Then, on the next page, select a drive to recover deleted photos from iPhoto.

Figure 2: Select Drive / Partition

Step 3: Scanning process starts and after the completion of scanning it displays all recovered photos. Select the photos which you want to view using “Preview” option. Save it for restoration purpose.

Figure 3: Preview File