Restore Apple Keynote Files on Mac OS X

“I have installed Apple Keynote on my Macintosh computer to create enhanced presentation files for my project work. Recently, I updated some system applications and from then my Mac started acting different. But when I try to open presentation file on Keynote an error message pops up stating that the application is invalid. Later, when I searched for presentation files in the drive, they were missing from the location. Can anyone please suggest me good solution to regain lost Keynote presentation files on Mac?”

Keynote is an application in iWork suite developed by Apple Inc. similar to Microsoft Office PowerPoint on Windows that creates presentation files. Keynote has all outstanding special features to make the presentation much livelier than ever. Various options to enhance great visual effects are included in this application such as option to easily drop images and videos, charts, tables, reflections for pictures and many more that gives a way for marvelous presentation files. Keynote also provides options to easily edit and share your presentation file on multiple Apple devices like iPhone, iPad, etc by sharing a link in iCloud. In spite of all these remarkable features, users still face limitations while using Apple Keynote where they may lose presentation files.

Mentioned below are few causes for loss of Keynote presentation files on Mac OS X:

• Mac users are privileged to use both Apple Keynote and Microsoft PowerPoint presentation applications on a single system. While importing Keynote file into Microsoft PowerPoint, interruptions like system shutdown, abrupt termination of presentation applications etc. can make the file go missing
• Accidental deletion of Keynote files on Mac OS X machine is the most commonly occurring situation where user may lose important presentation file due to unfortunate deletion
• Using iCloud to use presentation file among numerous synched gadgets (like iPhone, iPad, etc.) may sometimes result in missing of presentation files on all devices due to logical error
• Formatting the system drive / volume unnecessarily will erase all the files present on Macintosh system including Keynote presentation files
• When Keynote application suddenly crashes due to any irregularities in its working, then presentation file may go missing

Keynote files lost in any of these situations from Mac OS X can be manually restored sometimes with the help of ‘Time Machine’ utility. Just go to this option and track the files to find your lost / deleted presentation file and restore it. But most of the times, this option doesn’t serve helpful. In such situations, it is always recommended to make use of third party file recovery products to extract missing Keynote presentation files.

Best utility to rescue Apple Keynote presentation files on Mac:

As suggested by most of the professional recovery experts, Yodot Mac File Recovery is good option to perform safe recovery of Apple keynote files on Mac system. This tool is proven virus free and securely retrieves missing and erased presentation files from Mac hard drives, external drives, USB drives and other storage media formatted with HFS, HFS+, FAT16, FAT32 file systems. In addition to this, the tool can also restore docx, txt, html, exe, pdf and many other file types on Mac Leopard (10.5), Snow leopard (10.6) and Mac Lion (10.7) versions of operating systems.

Guidelines to retrieve Keynote files on Mac:

• Download Yodot Mac File Recovery tool and install it on your Mac system from where Keynote files are lost
• Now, run the utility by following on screen instructions
• Select “Deleted File Recovery” or “Lost File Recovery” option according to file loss situation
• Next, select the drive from which files are missing and select particular file type to recover
• The tool starts to scan the drive, recovery status can be overviewed by status bar
• After scanning process completes, all the recovered files will be provided in a list, including its file description
• Preview the files using Data view or File type view options under Preview button
• Then, select desired location to store recovered files on system drive (or on CD / DVD) and click on Save button

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