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Tutorial of Leawo Data Recovery for Mac

Leawo Data Recovery for Mac is the best program for Mac users to recover lost data from Mac hard drive and storage devices like USB drive, SD card, digital camera, mobile phone, MP3, MP4 player and more. For meeting with your specific demand, various data recovery modes are prepared for you: File Recovery, Photo Recovery and Lost Partition Recovery. You are allowed to deal with many disk formats including HFS+, FAT16/32, and NTFS file system volumes.

By using this File Recovery for Mac, data recovering on file types such as music, video, picture, email, document, zip file and more can be easy and fast. And with thorough file scanning and analysis, you recover deleted files on Mac seamlessly. Recover your data files easily with this powerful Mac Data Recovery.

Full Guide

When you operate this Data Recovery Mac on your PC, you will get the main interface as below. There are three data recovery modes presenting on it from which you can pick up one to recover data bases on your requirements.

Tutorial of Leawo Data Recovery for Mac

Part 1: File Recovery (Recover lost files by deep scan all the recognized files stored on each sector.)

Tutorial of Leawo Data Recovery for Mac

Select Disk

Click on the "File Recovery" option and then get into the following panel. Here you have to choose the target drive or volume you want to recover Mac data file. Then go to the "More Options" button on the top right corner to select file types to be scanned. All file types are checked by default.

Notes:
There are two scan options: For deleted files (only scan the lost data files), For all files (scan all data files).

Tutorial of Leawo Data Recovery for Mac

Scanning

After you have chosen file types to be scanned, click on the "Next" button to carry out file scanning. It will read sector for you intensively. In this step, the program also allows you to have a preview on image file.

Tutorial of Leawo Data Recovery for Mac

Select Files to Recover

Once file scanning is finished, the lost files are found and are listed on the left side of the program. Based on the files you found, you get Reconstructed Files or Found Files or both of them. If it is an image or document file, you can have a preview of it.
Select the files to recover by clicking on the "Recover" button. You need to select a path to save files and it is recommended to save the recovered files on another drive! Otherwise the lost/deleted data could be overwritten.

Notes:
Found Files displays files from the Mac OS X file system in the original directory structures and file names if it’s intact.
Reconstructed Files results will organize any found files by category and file type. These results will NOT have their original directory structure and will usually not have their original file names since they are found by file patterns.

Part 2: Photo Recovery (Easy to recover lost, deleted, formatted and inaccessible images, videos and music files from Mac based drives, iPod USB drives and other media storage devices.)
The Photo Recovery mode is identical to the File Recovery mode, so you only need to turn to Part 1 for reference.

Part 3: Lost Partition Recovery (Scan hard drive and other mass storage devices for lost or deleted volumes. It can also search volumes that fail to mount.)

Tutorial of Leawo Data Recovery for Mac

Select Disk

Get into the "Lost Partition Recovery" panel. This step is designed for you to select disk to be analyzed. Then click on "Next" button to go to the next step.

Tutorial of Leawo Data Recovery for Mac

Analyze cylinder

The cylinder is being analyzed in this step.

Tutorial of Leawo Data Recovery for Mac

Select a Volume

You will get volumes after cylinder analyzing, and now you should pick up one volume for file scanning. Here you can also choose the detailed files to be scanned with the "More Options" button.

Tutorial of Leawo Data Recovery for Mac

Scanning

The target data files to be scanned and checked within this step.

Select Files to Recover (Identical to Part 1—Step 3)

Select your wanted files to recover by clicking on the "Recover" button. Choose a path for saving the data files. Then you get the recovered files for further uses quickly with fast data recovering speed.