subject: How To Recover Photos From Mac Computer After Memory Card Corruption [print this page] Looking for a way to recover photos from a digital camera on your Mac computer? Well, you have come to the right article which details you about the whole process and the way to go about it. Photos from a digital camera can get lost in many instances. One major problem associated with digital cameras is memory card corruption. Due to corruption, many users lose their precious photos. Thankfully, you can recover lost photos on a Mac machine in surprisingly easy manner. All you have to do is decide upon an appropriate Mac photo recovery utility and use it. These tools help a great deal when you do not even possess a clean and updated backup to rely upon.
Let's understand more about corruption and related issues by taking a practical example. Consider a scenario, wherein, you have an advanced digital camera. You go on a vacation with your family and click several photos. When you return, you connect the memory card to your Mac computer in order to download photos. Shockingly, the computer fails to read your vacation photos. You reinsert the memory card in your camera, and receive the following error message as you make an attempt to view photos:
"Memory card full"
The above error message comes across as an unexpected one because your memory card has enough memory to accommodate almost 100 new photos. So, what's wrong? The possible causes and Mac photo recovery solutions to be employed are given in the next two important sections of this article.
Cause
The error message can surface in the following situations:
If the memory card of your digital camera is actually full
Or if the memory card has got damaged following an interruption in read/write process
Resolution
The following steps assist you in resolving the issue and recovering lost photos:
You must delete some unwanted photos or format the memory card
Also, in order to fix corruption, you have to reformat the memory card in your digital camera. Data loss can be compensated by downloading a third-party Mac photo recovery software, compatible with your digital camera.
Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery, a do-it-yourself application, supports recovery of photos from all major cameras including Sony, Canon, Nikon etc. The Mac photo recovery software is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6(Snow Leopard), 10.5 (Leopard), 10.4 (Tiger), and 10.3.9 (Panther). It recovers lost or deleted photos, audios and videos in almost all data loss scenarios.
