Compact Flash (CF) is a mass storage device used in portable electronic devices. Since Compact Flash cards are small, light, and can hold a large amount of data, they are suited for a variety of applications. CF cards are used in digital cameras, MP3 players, computers etc. With a CF card, you can store images, music, videos and games in one place, and then transfer them with ease. But inspite of having so many features, you may end up losing data from your CF card.
Some of the situations are:
- Usage of same card in different device -If you use same card in different devices then the images, video or audio files that are present in your CF card might get lost or it results in corruption of the files system.
- Accidental deletion – While deleting some of the unwanted photos if you pressed “Delete All” option then all the photos will be deleted
- Low battery – If you use CF card when your camera’s battery is running out of the power then the files will be lost
- Inaccessibility of files –After clicking many pictures, when you connect your CF card to the Mac machine, it displays that your CF card is empty. This error message causes inaccessibility of media files that are being stored in the CF card
- Virus infection – CF card gets corrupted due to virus attack
You may have lost your precious photos, audio and video files from your CF card due the cause that are mentioned above. As a matter of fact, the files are not completely removed from the CF card. Only files names and properties are being erased, the file content will be still present over there and are recoverable. All you need is to get a software for CF card recovery on mac. Many online utility programs are available that can recover all your lost, deleted or formatted files. Just keep in mind, the less actions you do with the CF card you are going to recover your files from, the higher the recovery chances are. As soon as a file is deleted, or you realize any missing, do not save any more files to that CF card, otherwise you may overwrite your deleted or lost files.
Yodot Mac Photo Recovery is software that can scan all the photos, videos and audio files and thus helps in recovering the CF card. It enables you to have safe, fast, easy and successful recovery. You need not spend much time on downloading the software as it takes only few minutes to get downloaded.
The below mentioned steps helps you to recover your CF card easily:
- Download Yodot Mac Photo Recovery Software and install it to your Mac machine. Click here
- Connect CF card to Mac machine using card reader
- Launch the application and follow the instructions that appeared on the window
- Two options “Deleted Photo Recovery” and “Lost Photo Recovery” will be displayed
- Select “Deleted Photo Recovery” if you have accidentally deleted photos from CF card
- For formatted CF card choose “Lost Photo Recovery” option
- All the drives / volumes will be displayed. Select the drive or volume that you want to recover
- Application starts scanning your CF card
- List of files that have been recovered will be displayed
- Select the one that you want to recover
- Preview them before saving for confirmation
- Browse the location to save the recovered files
- Make sure that you don’t save the files on the same location otherwise it will be overwritten
- You can save your data to CD, DVD or other external storage device