Guides

Plain answers for the moment you realise something's gone.

• How to use Found AgainA quick walkthrough of Found Again, with screenshots: plug in the card, scan, pick your photos and save them to your Mac. Most people are done in a few minutes.
• Recovering deleted photos and videos, camera by cameraWhere Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Lumix, OM System, GoPro, DJI and Insta360 save files, what they're called, and how to recover deleted photos and videos.
• A free alternative to Disk Drill for MacDisk Drill's free Mac version scans but won't recover files. A fair comparison of free alternatives for Mac, with prices and limits as of October 2026.
• How to recover deleted files from an external hard drive or USB stick on a MacHow to recover deleted files from an external hard drive or USB stick on a Mac, including after emptying the Trash, and why external SSDs are harder.
• How to recover photos from a formatted SD cardFormatted an SD card by mistake? A normal format usually leaves the photos in place. How to tell which format you did, and how to get photos back.
• PhotoRec on Mac: how it works, and a simpler alternativePhotoRec is free and powerful, but on a Mac it means Terminal, sudo and files named f1234567.jpg. How to use it step by step, and how Found Again compares.
• Can you recover deleted files from a Mac's internal SSD?The honest answer on recovering deleted files from a Mac's internal SSD: why scans don't work (TRIM, encryption), and exactly where to look instead.
• Is there a Recuva for Mac?There's no Recuva for Mac, because Recuva only runs on Windows. Here are the free tools that do work on a Mac for recovering deleted photos and files.
• How to recover deleted photos from an SD card on a MacDeleted photos from an SD card? They're usually still there. Here's what to do right now, and how to recover them on a Mac for free, step by step.