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Losing photos, documents or videos from your iMac can be a real pain. These files are so important to you and you may need to use them immediately. How to get them back? How to recover these deleted or lost files from iMac? If you want to get a successful iMac data recovery experience, you are in a right place. There are some tips for you to recover lost files from iMac or iMac hard drive.

Tip 1: Stop using your iMac

We suggest that you stop using the iMac after loss of data incase that the files may be overwritten. Any new files or new operations may take up the space and then make the old files permanently lost. So after you lose files in iMac, stop using it immediately. If you don't know what to do, just shut it down. You can Google your problem or ask a friend who once lost files from iMac to get iMac data recovery solution.

Tip 2: Download iMac data recovery freeware

You don't want to waste your time. So we would like to recommend you an effective iMac data recovery software tool – Do Your Data Recovery for Mac Free. Do Your Data Recovery for Mac Free is an award-winning free Mac data recovery software which can completely recover lost files in OS X. It can help you to easily recover lost files from iMac due to deletion, format, virus infection, power failure, OS crash, etc. This iMac data recovery freeware supports to recover any type of file from your iMac like photos, documents, videos, music, archives, emails, folders, etc.

You can recover lost files from iMac within three steps. After scanning, all the found files will be listed in three styles: Path, file type, Time to let you find the files you want in a short time. And you can search the file by name. Here are the three steps to recover lost files from iMac:

iMac Data Recovery Steps:

Step 1: Select file types that you want to recover.

This iMac data recovery software supports to recover all lost of files. You also can select the file types you want to recover.

iMac data recovery step 1

Step 2: Select a drive to scan.

Choose the hard drive where your data is lost, then click on Scan button. iMac data recovery software will scan the selected hard drive and find lost data.

iMac data recovery step 2

Step 3: Preview the files and save them on your iMac or other place.

After scanning, you can preview all recoverable files. Then select the wanted files and save them to a safe location.

iMac data recovery step 3

DoYourData iMac data recovery software offers two data recovery modes: quick scan and advanced recovery scan. If you can’t find all lost files after quick scan, just try advanced recovery mode. It will deeply scan the hard drive and find much more lost files. This data recovery software also can recover lost data from USB flash drive, memory card, portable hard drive, etc. Download it:

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Written & Updated by Justin Kenny

Justin Kenny is a writer & editor of DoYourData. He joined DoYourData in 2016 and focuses on writing articles about Windows data recovery, Mac data recovery, external device data recovery, hard drive clone, data erasure, Mac cleanup, computer issue fixes, etc. He is a super fan of Apple devices and is big on testing new digital device and system utility software.

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