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Undelete Recovery

About "Undelete Recovery" Function

The "Undelete Recovery" function in MiniTool Mac Data Recovery works only with deleted files and folders. This function allows you to undelete ("unerase" in other words) the data and files. This module supports various file systems (such as FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, and NTFS). In addition, it also permits users to restore deleted data on storage devices like Mac computer hard disk drive, external hard drive, USB flash drive, memory stick, SD memory card and flash card, and more.

Accidentally deleting files is a very common data loss situation. On a Mac computer, once you mistakenly deleted a file, you can find and restore the deleted file from the Trash bin. But if you also emptied the Trash bin, then you permanently deleted the file.

The shortcut keys for deleting files on Mac are as follows, and they conduct different actions.

  • Command + Delete: Using this shortcut will move any selected items to the Trash.
  • Command + Shift + Delete: Press these three keys at the same time will empty the Trash.
  • Command + Shift + Option + Delete: This will empty the Trash without the confirmation dialog box.

But fortunately, with a professional Mac data recovery software, you can easily recover lost/deleted folders and files on Mac even if you emptied the Trash bin on Mac.

MiniTool Mac Data Recovery software is such a piece of powerful Mac-based data recovery software, enabling you to undelete files on Mac computer with ease.

You can use this top Mac file recovery software to recover deleted/lost files, folders, photos, images, videos, music, emails, documents, excels and any other type of file from Mac computer. You can use it to recover data on MacBook Pro/Air, iMac, iMac Pro, Mac Pro/Mini, etc.

Aside from recovering deleted files on Mac hard drive. Moreover, you can also use this Mac data recovery software to recover data from connected USB flash drive, removable external hard drive, SSD, SD card, or other data storage devices.

Continue to check how to use Undelete Recovery function of MiniTool Mac Data Recovery to undelete files on Mac.

How to Do the File Recovery with "Undelete Recovery" Function

Open MiniTool data recovery software download center page, and free download, install MiniTool Mac Data Recovery 3.0 on your Mac computer.

After the installation is completed, launch it and follow the detailed guide below to retrieve files on Mac.

Step 1. Choose “Undelete Recovery” module.

After you enter into the main interface of MiniTool Mac Data Recovery, you can click Undelete Recovery module to proceed to next window.

Step 2. Choose a partition to scan.

Next you can select the target partition which contains your deleted files from the drive list.

After that, rightly click Scan button to start scanning the chosen partition for deleted/lost files and folders.

Note: this scan process may take a few minutes in accordance with the size of the used volume space.

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Step 3. Find wanted deleted files from the scan result.

After the file scan process is completed, you should see all the deleted, lost and normal files on the select partition are listed in the scan result window. Now you can view the scan result by Path or Type.

Expand suspicious folder one by one in the left column to find your needed files. You can preview the file by clicking Preview button.

Once you find your wanted files, you can check them and click Save button to store the files to a new destination path.

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Step 4. Specify a target folder to save files.

After you click Save button, you can then click Browse to set a destination folder (different from the original path), and click OK to recover the deleted files to the designated folder.

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Now MiniToool Mac Data Recovery tutorial for "Undelete Recovery" module is done.

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