How to Retrieve Deleted Movies on Mac?

“Hi there, someone please help me to retrieve deleted movies on Mac. It all happened when I was in a swinging mood and unintentionally deleted certain movie files thinking that they are not required further. But, during the process, I had selected important video files along with unwanted files, which is now deleted completely. So, can anyone suggest me good recovery tool so that I can restore deleted movie files on my Mac computer? Please help.”

Mac is the most widely used operating systems in present generation due to its user friendly attributes. Many users wish to own a MacBook or Mac desktop so that videos can be watched and edited with excellent picture quality, images can be edited easily using third party utilities, files can be managed with effective hierarchy and many more. But, even Mac users encounter loss of files from computer due to deletion or other software conflicts. As mentioned above video files can get erased on Mac in number of possible situations such as:

  • Emptying Trash by overlooking what files are present in it
  • Enabling Auto-empty Trash option can sometimes cause complete deletion of movie files that are accidentally erased
  • Using Mac Terminal to erase any video file will remove that file completely
  • Use of unauthentic antivirus tool on Mac may causes deletion of movies files in the process of removing threats from system

Even if erased movie files cross Trash folder, one can retrieve it back if backup is enabled through Time Machine. But most of the novice users may fail to enable Time Machine and thus incur loss of essential movie files from Mac. In such instance, the only way to recover deleted movie files on Mac computer is to employ most effective Yodot Mac Photo Recovery tool which is considered as brilliant video file recovery tool.

Recovery of erased movie files from Mac OS X:

As mentioned above, Yodot Mac Photo Recovery is the best application to retrieve erased and lost Movies files on Mac OS X. It can restore video files in MPEG, AVI, MOV, MP4, XVID, MPG, 3GP, AEPX, DIVX, M4V, ALE and many more file formats. You can recover lost movies on iTunes on Mac computer and other external storage drives. Along with videos, it can restore deleted photos as well as music files on MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac and Mac Pro desktop with ease. Also, the software is capable of rescuing videos, music, photos and RAW images from digital cameras, iPods, MP3 players, Handycams, mobile phones and other gadgets. This program is applicable on Mac Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion OS X based Mac machines to regain media files from system hard drives, pen drives, memory cards, external hard drives and other storage devices.

General steps to use this media file recovery software:

  • Download the software on Mac computer in which movie files are erased
  • Install and run the utility by following given instructions
  • In main screen, click on “Deleted Photo Recovery” option as you have to retrieve deleted movies
  • Further select the volume from which video files have to be recovered and click next
  • If required precise the recovery process by mentioning necessary file types to retrieve or Skip the step
  • Now software performs a neat and quick scan of selected volume to regain erased movie files
  • After few seconds of scanning, recovered movies will be displayed in Data View / File Type View modes
  • Select required video file from the list and preview it before saving
  • At last save these restored videos to desired target location on Mac drive

Paramount Tips:

  • Before erasing set of video files from Mac verify the selected files
  • Disable Auto-empty Trash option unless you are sure about its working
  • It is wise to keep backup of crucial movie files on external storage drives to avoid file loss

Other Popular Software

Yodot Photo Recovery (Windows)

Recover and restore deleted photos lost from your digital camera memory card or the images from your Windows PC. The software can recover all popular image types including popular audio and video files.

Yodot Mac File Recovery

The only undelete application for Mac that can recover deleted files from HFS+, HFSX partitions on Mac. The software also has the ability to recover lost files using RAW signature method.