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Reading Time: 5minutesOct 31, 2020 Download PhotoRescue 3.4 for Mac from our software library for free. The most popular versions of the tool are 3.4, 3.3 and 3.2. The size of the latest downloadable installation package is 3.8 MB. PhotoRescue for Mac lies within System Tools, more precisely Backup & Restore. The value of your digital camera is far far away from the value of the photos you've taken. In case you have mistakenly deleted some photos you took or when you copied the files in the computer some of them appear to be broken, PhotoRescue will do its best to recover them.
PhotoRescue is totally risk free flash recovery solution as it does not write to the damaged or erased media. It will show you accurate and reliable previews of what is recoverable. The full version, should you decide to purchase it, costs $29 only. PhotoRescue Mac OS X Expert. The expert version is intended for the POWER user. Download the latest demo version of PhotoRescue Wizard ZIP / DMG File (3.4.0.13436 - Feb 23, 2014) this version will work on Mac OS X 10.2 and above (including Lion). It is optimized for both Intel and PowerPC Mac. The demo version will show you an accurate preview of the recoverable pictures and will allow you to take card backups.
We all love our photos and save on smartphone, computers, removal hard drives, camera, drone but what happens if one of those device fails or get corrupted and you don’t have a backup or you have deleted photos accidentally by pressing delete button.
Why do images get “Corrupted”? Here are the top 1o reasons
1. Spread of virus in removable storage devices, such as memory card, USB drives.
2. Formatted memory card, flash drive.
3. Accidental deletion of photos
4. Computer suddenly shut down while transferring data
5. Your data is in transfer mode and suddenly you remove the device which can be hard disks, memory card
6. Photo taken when battery is extremely low hence we suggest you should not take photos with low battery
7. Ignore the warnings like “Storage media is full” and still you are saving photos
8. Using the storage medium in multiple devices without formatting
9. Forced and auto ejection of SD Card
10. Removing the memory card without switching off the camera
Hence it’s very essential to take a backup of your data so that you may recover it whenever needed.
Suddenly realized your photos deleted but don’t panic if you don’t have a backup! We found top Photo Recovery Software for you that will help to do 100% recovery of your deleted photos, videos, and audio files.
NOTE:- Before we proceed I would like to tell you that we tested all the photo recovery tools and 100% safe to download and try.
5 Best Photo Recovery Software in 2021 (Our Choice)
1. Stellar Photo Recovery (Windows & Mac)
Developed by Team Stellar who is the most trusted data care brand across the globe, Stellar Photo Recovery is a powerful tool to recover deleted images, audio, and video files from any type of storage media.
Awesome Features We Like
- Recover any file formats regardless of size such as JPEG, JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PSD, RAW, BMP etc.
- Recovery from all storage devices such as HDD, USB Drives, Memory card, Encrypted drive.
- Any type of Video & Audio file formats can be recovered ( We successfully did a recovery of numerous MP3, MP4, 3GP, WAV, MIDI, AMR files)
- Deep Scanning option available
- Check the preview of scanned files in 3 different ways – File type, Tree View and Deleted list
- Supports recovery of Unicode files
- Recovery from DSLR, Video cameras and Drones
- Software interface is user-friendly and easy to use
- Free trial available and pay only one you are satisfied
- Successful image recovery in just 3 steps
2. Recoverit Photo Recovery (Windows & Mac)
Recover lost photos in various situations such as accidentally deletion, system formatted, System crashed or device failure, virus or malware attack, partition loss, system reinstallation, inaccessible hard disk, wiped hard drive using Recoverit Photo Recovery tool. This tool also supports all types of image and video formats but it’s taking too much time to scan our system as compared to the Stellar image recovery tool.
Team assures that you will get a full refund if no recovery happens.
3. Card Recovery (Windows & Mac)
Another award-winning and professional as well as reliable image recovery tool is Card Recovery which is a product of WinRecovery software that uses a smart scan technology to recover the deletion of data. As per the company 1K users everyday use card recovery tool to recover the deleted photos lost in various scenarios. During various situations we are not able to recover the data hence we recommend you to go for trial version before you purchase the license.
Using this tool you can retrieve the EXIF information of your image such as shooting time, image size, camera model.
While testing of Card Recovery we found that it performs READ only operations on our SD card which means data cannot be modified, move or deleted and whole process of recover is very smooth and easily done.
4. DiskDrill Photo Recovery Software (Windows & Mac)
DiskDrill is an easy to use method to bring back deleted photos.
Features
- Using DiskDrill you can recover 500MB of photos completely free in the trial version.
- Preview the scanned results before you start recovering deleted files.
- Free Data Protection Tool so that your photos are 100% safe.
- Powerful scanning algorithm that helps you to stop the scanning process at any time and recover the found photos.
- Recovery from PC/Mac, HDD/SDD, USB Drive, SD/SF card, Camera, iPhone/Android
5. Exif Untrasher (Mac Only) – 100% free
Developed by German Engineer Carsten Bluem – Exif Untrasher is the free tool to recover deleted JPEG images on the Mac system. Yes, we restored images taken from various cameras such as Apple, Canon, Fuji, Kodak, Olympus. It may happen that you will not success in doing recovery from every device but you will get results that you are expecting from this free recovery tool.
Available in English, French, German & Italian language
Final Conclusion
If at any point of time you lost your precious photos you can easily recover them using the above photo recovery software. Although there are many ways and a lot of tools but based on our research we tested these top 5 photo recovery software for you to bring back lost photos. Stellar Photo Recovery is very fast in terms of scanning the data we successfully recovered 98% of photos hence we recommend this awesome tool for all professional photographers, entrepreneurs, videographers.
NEW (February, 2011):Photorescue 3.2.5!
The best image recovery program gets even faster & better
- NEW in 3.2: Additional Raw file formats, Handles even larger files (great for video)
- Integrated CardWiper functionality
- Works with all the types of media used in digital camera (SD Cards, CF Cards, Memeory Sticks, etc... etc...
- Cutting edge QT based user interface: common cross-platform interface. No learning curve or differences between versions.
- Native Intel Support on Mac OS X: several times faster than version 2.x in native mode.
- Up-to-Date RAW file recovery support: supports latest cameras such as the Canon 400D and many more...
- Improved Movie recovery: we keep increasing the maximum movie recovery size.
- One year of free updates: keep abreast of technology changes, new file formats and technologies.
- Unlimited recoveries: use our program as many times as you need to use it.
- No media size limits. No recovery limits. Non expiring license: the program is yours to keep and use.
- No copy protection: no unfriendly copy protection scheme or intrusive activation mechanism.
- Free demo with guaranteed previews: unlike some of our competitors who use the small embedded thumbnail as a preview of the recovery, we generate our preview on the fly, from actual card data.
Buy now and get both the PC & Mac versions for 29!
| Buy for $29 (Windows PC & Mac Versions) |
Not ready to buy? Try the Free 30-day Demo:
PC Version: photorescue_win_325
Mac OS X Version: photorescue_mac_325
Photorescue Mac Free Software
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[Licensed Users can simply download and install the Demo version to Upgrade]
PhotoRescue Overview:
| More than any other topic, the mention of lost images strikes fear into the heart of the digital photographer. Having said goodbye to film almost 5 years ago, I have become completely dependent on my digital cameras, accessories, and the computer systems which make them work. For most of our tools there is a good fail-safe. Carry two bodies, a variety of lenses with overlapping capabilities, both a laptop and a Digital Wallet, spare cables, and lots of cards. But once we've captured those images of a lifetime, we are at the mercy of the electrons on the card at least until we can get the images safely onto a laptop or maybe even a portable CD burner backup. |
So what do you do when a card crashes? That's what I asked myself when I'd just filled a card with images of wolves with a kill deep in Denali and had it crash on me and turn unreadable. After two hours of hacking with Norton & Windows utilities I'd only made the problem worse. I was so disgusted with myself I just reformatted it and got back to life.
But I vowed it wouldn't happen to me again. I found some very expensive system administrator tools which are great, but very hard to use, very expensive, and don't really have any nice features like letting you preview the images you lost as you recover them.
Then I found Photorescue (for Windows)! I've been experimenting with it for several months, but wanted to wait to really recommend it until I could use it on some actual crashed cards. Needless to say, cards never crash when you want them too. But finally I've had a chance to use it to recover some valuable images off of crashed cards. And it worked great!
At $29 Photorescue is a total no-brainer. It is faster and cheaper than trying to send the card back to the vendor and much preferred to trying to use a general purpose tool like Scandisk or Norton to hammer at the poor card.
Using Photorescue
| Photorescue is easy to use. There are some fairly technical terms in the dialogs, but most of them are there for your information and the program always set the defaults correctly for me so I seldom had to change many settings. About the only thing you really need to tell it is whether the crashed card has a drive letter already or whether it is so damaged that Photorescue has to read it at the block level to recover the files. It can be used with crashed files, accidentally deleted files, and so far just about any type of problem image I've been able to come up with to test it on. |
Getting started:
You can download Photorescue 2 right here at nikondigital.org.
PC Version: photorescue2
Mac Version: photorescue2
Photorescue Mac Free Download
We've also provided the Quickstart guide (PDF) and Quickstart guide (RTF) for your convenience. Once you decide you want to buy it you can simply purchase online from the software.
Note on using the Demo Version:
Secondary or external hard drives can now be recovered. PhotoRescue will ignore the system drive for safety reasons. We recommend the use of a fast interface such as Firewire or USB 2.0 for external drives.
Backup from the Demo Version:
After it completes its run, the demo version of PhotoRescue will offer to create a backup of your card. If your pictures appear to be recovered, we strongly suggest that you accept this option as your media could become worse between the time you run the demo and the time you purchase the program. The backup will be stored in a file called by default card_image.cib and will require an amount of free disk space equal to the size of the media. The backup file can be opened by the full version of PhotoRescue.
Q: Will Photorescue recover your Raw files?
A: YES!! Photorescue now has direct support for previewing and recovering Nikon NEF images and Canon CRW images, along with many other Raw file formats.
Did you know that 72 images of the WTC disaster site were recovered with Photorescue? |
Mac Free Downloads
Photorescue is published by Datarescue, a major European supplier of high-tech software technology.
--David Cardinal
Pro Shooters LLC
Why it is the best?
Photorescue works when others won't. I've verified that myself many times when recovering lost images. So did Personal Computer Magazine, which awarded Photorescue the Best Buy and Best Product awards after it outperformed every other package in every test!
Upgrades
Upgrades are free for purchasers/renewers within the last year, otherwise you can Upgrade for $19 here.
PhotoRescue Expert Version
If you prefer the powerful Expert interface of Photorescue 2.1, you can still purchase it here:
| Buy the PC Version for $29 | Buy the Mac Version for $29 |
Also: FREE Cardwiper 1.0.1:
PC Version: cw101. Mac OS X Version: cw101
Note: Cardwiper does not work with Lexar readers.