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Have you lost some important files from your Compact Flash (CF) card when you connect it with your Mac? Don’t panic. The files are not permanently lost. In most cases, you can try to recover your lost files from CF card under Mac OS with CF card data recovery software. In this article, we will show you how to restore lost files from CF card under Mac OS with easy-to-use CF card data recovery software.

How to Restore Lost Files from CF Card under Mac?

You may delete thousands of photos, audio files, videos, or documents from your CF card. Don’t worry, CF card data recovery software for Mac can help you recover all kinds of lost files from your CF card under Mac OS. DoYourData data recovery software for Mac is an easy-to-use Mac data recovery application which supports to recover any kind of file from Mac hard drive or storage media. It can easily recover lost files from CF card under Mac OS within easy steps. It can:

  • Recover all kinds of lost files including documents, archives, photos, videos, audio, etc.
  • Recover deleted files from CF card under Mac OS.
  • Recover lost files from inaccessible, formatted, corrupted CF card under macOS or OS X.
  • Recover raw files from CF card on Mac.
  • Recover lost files from CF card under Mac OS due to virus infection, power failure, logical error or other unknown reasons.

Easy Steps to Restore Lost Files from CF Card on Mac

Step 1: Download and install DoYourData CF card data recovery software for Mac on your Mac. You can click on the following download button to download it on your Mac.

Step 2: Connect your CF card with your Mac via card reader.

Step 3: Run this software on your Mac. First of all, select file types you want to recover. Or just let it recover all types of lost files for you.

restore lost files from CF card under Mac

Step 4: DoYourData CF card data recovery software for Mac will list all hard drives and devices on your Mac. Just select the CF card as the targeted media. Click on “Scan” button to scan the CF card to find lost files.

restore lost files from CF card under Mac

Step 5: After scanning, you can preview the recoverable files to check the details and quality. When you find your lost files, just select them and click on “Recover” button to save them on your Mac.

restore lost files from CF card under Mac

When you have not found all lost files after quick scan, you can try advanced recovery mode to scan the CF card in deep scan mode. It takes longer time but find much more lost files.

If you want to recover all lost files from your CF card under Mac OS, please don’t put new files to your CF to prevent the lost files from being overwritten. So please don’t save the recovered files to your CF card before you recover all your lost files. In some cases, the system may ask you to format your CF card. Under this situation, DoYourData CF card data recovery software can help you export all the existing and lost files from your CF card under Mac OS.

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Written & Updated by Anderson

Anderson is a big fan of computer technology. He joined DoYourData in 2018 and has been writing 200+ articles about disk clone, data recovery, computer technology, data erasure, Mac system optimization, etc. He loves music, movie, and reading. In his spare time, he’s studying music and playing tennis.

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