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Recover Deleted Photos from Trash
There are different views that are expressed by experts in the data recovery field, regarding the different methods in which we can recover photos that we believe have been lost permanently. A lot of it is however dependent on the way in which the photo has been deleted or lost. For example, if you have just trashed the photos on your Mac, you can just go to the folder and select the Put Back option, to restore the deleted photos to its original location.
However, this is not the case in all photo loss scenarios. There are instances when you might trash some valuable photos, and then later go on to empty the trash. Although the photos in the Trash are not erased immediately, further Read/Write operations on the hard drive might permanently delete the photos from the drive, making it impossible to recover the trashed photos. In such complex photo loss scenarios, it is always best to get for yourself, a good and trustable photo recovery software.
Having a copy of all your valuable photos can definitely avoid the trouble of having to buy a photo recovery software, but in case a backup copy of your photos is not present, it is always better to make use of a good photo recovery software to recover all the trashed photos on Mac. Digital Photo Recovery software lets you recover photos even after the Trash has been emptied. This photo recovery software can recover photos of over 25 different file formats. The in-built Preview option lets the user evaluate the chances of recovering his lost photos, which can be of great use in the Demo Version of the software.
You can follow the steps given below, to successfully recover all the accidentally deleted photos from the digital camera or when you have emptied the Mac OS X trash after deletion.
Step 1: Remove the memory card from the digital camera, and connect it to a healthy PC where the software has already been installed. Start Digital Photo Recovery (Mac) software, by selecting it from the application folder. The main window pops up as shown in Figure a.

Figure a: Main window
Step 2: The local and the external drives that are detected, are displayed as shown in the figure. Select the hard drive that you connected as slave, and click the Next button to proceed to the next step, as shown in Figure b.

Figure b: Select Drive
Step 3: On clicking the Next button, a new window gets displayed, as shown Figure c. The various types of photo files, audio files, and video files are displayed, as shown in the figure below. You can choose specifically, from the file types you wish to recover, or select all the file types, if you wish to recover all the media files, based on your requirement.

Figure c: Select file type
Note: By default, all the photo, audio and video files are selected for recovery. You can disable this feature, by clicking on the Deselect all button.
Step 4: After selecting on the file types that you want to recover, click the Recover button, to start the recovery process. A new window displays, the progress made in the recovery process, and also lists the number of files that have been found, as shown in Figure d.
You can use the Show selected file types option, to display the file types you selected in the previous step.

Figure d: Progress bar
Step 5: Once the scanning process is completed, the recovered media files are grouped together and listed in their respective folders as shown in Figure e. Clicking any of the folder displays, the recovered files of the respective file type, that are listed under that folder, as shown in the figure.

Figure e: Found files and folders
Step 6: Once the files are recovered, you can select a particular file, and then click on the View button, to preview the image, as shown in Figure f.

Figure f: Preview
Step 7: The last step is to save all the recovered media files to a destination drive. You can select specific files for saving, or, click on the Select All button,if you want to save all the files that have been recovered.
Click on the Save button, and select the destination drive, onto which you want the files to be saved. You can also use the Save scan info button to save information about a particular scan task.

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