Many people are under the assumption that Mac computer problems are far more expensive and difficult to deal with than those one will run into when using a Windows based PC. This is partially true for Mac file recovery tools are somewhat more expensive than those available for Windows but generally speaking the process of Mac recovery is nearly identical to the steps followed when attempting to recover lost, damaged, or deleted files from a Windows based PC.
The first step in any data recovery task is to try to ascertain where our files were deleted or lost from. For example if you interrupted the downloading of digital photographs from your camera’s memory card to your computer’s hard disk drive you might look for the lost files in either your computer’s internal hard drive or preferably the camera SD card onto which the files were originally loaded. The further upstream one can travel in looking for lost files the higher the likelihood of successful data recovery. After you have determined where you feel your files were last located you can then use a powerful third party file recovery tool such as those offered by Remo Software to scan that drive and search within it for any recently deleted or damaged files.