Stellar Photo Recovery 
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DIY Mac Photo Recovery Tool
Recovers Deleted Photos, Videos & Audio Files on Mac
- Recovers deleted photos from Time Machine, Trash, or Photos App.
- Recovers formatted, deleted, inaccessible, or lost photos.
- Recovers from HDD, SSD, SD card, USB drive, etc.
- Compatible with M1 & T2 chip-enabled Macs
- Supports latest macOS Monterey 12.0 and Lower versions
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Recover All Photos, Videos, & Audio File Formats
Stellar Photo Recovery for Mac retrieves lost or deleted videos, photos, music collections, podcasts etc., of any file format without quality loss.
- Supports all photo formats — JPEG, JPG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, PSD, EPS etc.
- Recovers RAW camera files — CR2, ERF, RAF, K25, NEF, ORF, SR2, etc.
- Supports popular video formats — MP4, MOV, MXF, AVI, ASF, WMV, 3GP, etc.
- Recovers audio files — MP3, RPS, OGG, AT3, SND, AU, WAV, etc.
Recover Photos from Mac & Camera
Stellar Photo Recovery for Mac recovers deleted photos, videos, and audio from several devices including— cameras, USB flash drives, SD Cards, Mini Disk, Zip Disk, Time Machine, Trash, and other Mac-based internal/ external drives. The software can also recover media files from encrypted and APFS, HFS+, FAT32, exFAT, and NTFS drives.
- Storage cards, SSD & HDD — SanDisk®, Kingston®, Seagate®, Samsung®, Fusion Drive®, etc.
- Popular camera brands — Nikon®, Canon®, Sony®, Kodak®, Olympus® etc.
- Action & Drone cameras — GoPro®, DJI®, Phantom®, Garmin®, etc.
- Large storage devices up to 5 TB
More Awesome Features
Recover Permanently Deleted Photos on Mac
You can easily recover images in any format by using this Mac photo recovery software. Not just lost pictures, the Mac photo recovery software also retrieves lost or deleted video files, music collections, and podcasts from a variety of devices including— digital cameras, iPods, USB storage devices, SD Cards, Flash Cards, Mini Disks, Zip Disks, and Mac-based hard drives.
Mac Photo Recovery from Encrypted Drives
Mac users encrypt hard drives to protect data. The encryption on drives often presents a challenge for conventional photo recovery software. However, the Stellar Photo Recovery for Mac recovers photos, videos, and audio files just as efficiently as on unencrypted drives.
Disk Imaging for Quick Recovery
Recover deleted photos, videos, and audio files from a Mac hard drive that has lots of bad sectors on it. The disk imaging feature helps you get back lost or deleted multimedia securely, without the risk of data loss due to drive failure. All you need to do is create a disk image for such drives and run this mac photo recovery tool on the disk image rather than the storage hardware. Recovering from disk image is both faster and safer.
Save Scan Information & Resume Recovery
This advanced photo recovery tool for Mac lets you stop a running scan and save the scan progress up to that point in the form of a file. This scan file can be later loaded into the software to resume recovery from the saved point. Additionally, the Resume Recovery features for Disk Image, Volume Image and saved scan information have been optimized, with an option to display their respective screens on a single page.
Deep Scan for Better Results
For most devices, the application’s advanced scanning engine quickly finds the recoverable items. However, certain files might not turn up after a normal scan in some cases. In such cases, the software does a Deep Scan of the storage drive to recover every bit of lost or deleted media files. By recognizing file headers, this feature lets the software conduct a deep scan and find out all the missing multimedia files.
Advanced Mac Photo Recovery
The latest version of the software not only recovers photo, video or audio files but also has features to Preview, Add new file header, and Edit file header. The file preview feature has been modified to support preview of corrupted files in the safe mode, both in thumbnail view and running preview. Also, if you’re unable to find the desired file format in the list of supported formats, you can add a new file header or edit an existing one.
Select Specific File Type or Region for Recovery
You can scan an entire Mac drive or restrict the scope of scanning to a specific region to recover your photos, videos, and audio files. This helps save a lot of time in case you know the exact location on the hard drive or volume, where a photo or media file existed before being deleted. The files found are then available for preview and recovery. Similarly, you can instruct the software to scan the storage media for specific file types for effective Mac photo recovery.
Recovery of Unicode Files
In addition to the wide range of photo, video, and audio file formats, the Mac photo recovery software also supports recovery of Unicode files, thus eliminating the need for a converter or any other supporting software. *Unicode is a character encoding standard that has widespread acceptance. * Keeping this in mind, the Stellar photo recovery software for Mac is one of the most versatile software available in the market that helps recover photos from Mac.
Retrieve detailed file information
Along with recovering deleted photos, this powerful product also facilitates retrieving detailed information related to the recovered files. This information includes the file name, original date timestamp, camera model / name, and resolution.
File Preview with Customized Recovery
The software shows a preview of corrupt files in safe mode, both in thumbnail view and running scan mode. The File Preview feature can be turned on/off anytime based on your preference. The photo recovery software for Mac also allows to add new file header and edit file header. So, if you’re unable to find a specific file format in the list of supported formats, you can add a new file header to the list or edit an existing one.
How Stellar Photo Recovery for Mac Works
Choose The Best Plan
Standard
Recover your memories which are stored in Photo or Video Formats
- Recovers Photo, Video & Music Files
- Supports All Storage Media
- Supports All Major Cameras
Professional
One Tool having two different capabilities of Photo Recovery & Repair
- Recovers Photo, Video & Music Files
- Supports All Storage Media
- Supports All Major Cameras
- Repairs Corrupt Photos
- Extracts Thumbnails of Severely Corrupt Photos
Premium
Advance Tool to Recover Photo along with Repair features for Video & Photo
- Recovers Photo, Video & Music Files
- Supports All Storage Media
- Supports All Major Cameras
- Repairs Corrupt Photo
- Extracts Thumbnail
- Repair Corrupt Videos
- Repair Multiple Videos in one go
- Supports Multiple Formats
What Customers Say About Our Stellar Photo Recovery for Mac Software?
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ePHOTOzine
Stellar Photo Recovery Software is something we don't want to have to use but when we need to, it's brilliant - Highly Recommended.
Fstoppers
Ultimately, I'm very pleased that I have been able to recover the images and files I needed, and I highly recommend Stella Recovery.
Digital Photography School
Stellar Photo Recovery is a fantastic option for photographers and videographers looking to recover files. It’s simple to use, its performance is impeccable, and I can’t recommend it enough.
Digital Camera World
Rescue deleted images or video from any memory card or hard drive - it's no problem with Stellar Photo Recovery.
Peta Pixel
Stellar Photo Recovery is free to download, easy to install, and is a great option for people who truly went all-in on their photography, who have RAW images to process, or even took a lot of high-quality videos that they treasure.
Technical Specifications
About Product
Version
11.2.0.0
Release Date
December, 2021
License
Can use only on a single system
Edition
Standard, Professional, Premium, & Technician
Language Supported
English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese
System Requirement
Processor
Intel-compatible (x86, x64)
Operating System
macOS Monterey 12, Big Sur 11, Catalina 10.15, 10.14, 10.13, 10.12 & 10.11
Memory
4 GB minimum (8 GB recommended)
Hard Disk
250 MB of free space
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FAQ
Following are the new updates in version 11 of Stellar's Photo recovery software.
- Software now supports data recovery on APFS Encrypted Drive.
- The support for APFS File Vault (Encrypted) Recovery is added.
- The software supports APFS Fusion Drive (Inbuilt in iMac, Non-encrypted).
- The support for scanning, preview, and recovery for Large Sectors 4K/2K Drive of APFS, HFS+, FAT32, NTFS, and EXFAT is provided.
- Similarly, the software now supports Large Sector 4K/2K Drive for Can't find Volume and Create Image feature.
- Lastly, the software is now available in the Japanese language.
You can easily recover your photos from formatted USB drive by using Stellar Photo Recovery for Mac. Just follow these simple steps.
- Connect your USB to the Mac system.
- Download, install and run Stellar Photo Recovery for Mac.
- On home screen of the software select Photos. Click Next.
- Select your USB drive from the list of drives and external media.
- Click Scan.
- Once the scanning completes, the list of found photos appear. You can select desired pictures and click Recover.
- Select destination to save the recovered photos. Click Save.
The error is displayed mostly when the card is in 'locked' position. Check to see whether your memory card is in unlocked position. Simply flick the right switch of your memory card and you can 'lock' or 'unlock' your memory card. If the card is already unlocked, then there might be corruption issue with the card. You can go for Stellar Photo Recovery Mac in that case.
Yes, you can get back deleted music files from SD card using Stellar Photo Recovery software. Simple install and run the software on your system. The software will scan the connected SD Card and recover the lost or deleted music files on your desired location.
Whenever you are unable to find your file 'format' in the list of supported file types by the software, you can edit the existing file formats or add new file types of your choice. Click here to see the steps.
This kind of issue usually gets corrected by formatting the card in the camera. However, sometimes, the reason may also be camera and card incompatibility. In that case, you should update your gear with the latest firmware. If the issue is still there, then run Stellar Photo Recovery Mac Software to recover your images.
You can create an image of entire or selected range of the hard drive or card and save it to recover photos, videos and audio files at a later stage. Follow the below steps to Create Image of the drive:
- Click on Resume Recovery icon at the top of main interface.
- Select Create Image option.
- Select the drive for which you want to create image.
- Click Advanced Settings at the bottom.
- Select the Range to Create Image. Click Next.
- Specify a location for saving the image file.
- Click Start Imaging. The image file is saved at your specified location.
To recover pictures from the Image file, perform the below steps:
- Click on Resume Recovery icon on home screen.
- Click Load Image. A Recovery from Image window opens. All image files with .img extension are listed.
- Select the image file for which you want to resume the recovery process and click Add.
- Click Scan.
- Click Recover.
- Browse location to save the recovered files. Click Save.
To recover photos from saved scan information on Mac follow the below steps:
- On home screen, click on the Resume Recovery icon. A Resume Recovery window opens. All the saved scan information files are listed.
- Select the scan information file for which you want to resume the recovery process and click Add.
- Click Recover.
- Browse location to save the recovered files. Click Save.
No. You must save the image of the drive at another location as saving the image file on the same media leads to overwriting and permanent data loss.
Yes, the new Stellar Photo Recovery supports recovery from Linux-based drives, SD cards etc.
Yes. Do not remove your media during the scan or recovery process. Detach your card or other media only after the recovery process completes.
The latest Stellar Photo Recovery 9.0 supports all known and unknown multimedia file types. The software supports recovery of lost or deleted raster images, vector files, MXF movies, HD-MOV, Adobe EPS, and RAW file formats of cameras. You can even add the new file types, if your required media file type is not in the predefined list of supported formats.
Yes, you can get back deleted photos from Canon 700D by using Stellar Photo Recovery software. Simple install and run the software on your system. The software will scan the connected drive and recover the lost or deleted photos or videos on your selected drive.
Advance Settings option in the software helps you speed up the scanning and recovery process. You can select specific file types that you want to recover. Also, reduce scanning time by choosing a specific region (starting and ending sector) rather than complete drive for scan. Read more.
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