How to Undelete files in OS X Mountain Lion and iPad?

Mishandling of data or virus-attack may cause data loss in any device; whether it’s a Mac machine or an iPod/iPad. The process of recovering the deleted/lost files from any hard drive, USB flash drive, iPad Mini or iPod turns out into a big battle, when the data gets deleted from Trash bin. Although there are so many Mac data recovery programs, which are good enough to regain Mac data from the emptied trash, from the formatted drive or even from the lost Mac volume. Before choosing a good one shareware or freeware, take a deep look through the several programs and choose that one, which is able to recover (lost either by drive formatting, volume lost due to virus or power failures) with an easy-to-use GUI.

On the other hand, before going towards buying a brand new reliable software, try the below mentioned manual tricks and enjoy recovering the lost data.

 

How to recover the lost files from OS X Mountain Lion?

How to recover the lost data from Mountain Lion?

If your Mac is running OS X 10.8 and lost important files and applications by mistake then it is easy to recover the lost data. Please make sure before attempting the below mentioned steps that nothing is written on the hard drive after the data loss. For example, any software update or any system files update.

• Very firstly close all the programs, running in Mac machine 

• Simply try to refresh Home Page screen 

• Locate Trash Bin and click on it to open 

• Once the Trash Bin is opened, see the deleted files here 

• Select those files and applications, which you want to regain 

• Now, select ‘Restore’ option 

• Once you click on restore option, a message window will be prompted to confirm about restoring the deleted items back on the desires location 

• Click OK

Well, it’s a very simple and well-known process to regain the lost data. In case, if trash bin is emptied then definitely reliable Mac data recovery software can recover the lost data.

  

How to recover the lost data from iPad Mini?

If you are owning an iPad Mini and important file and folders have been deleted by mistake. Then it’s the time to recover those lost data with the following steps.

• Go to Main menu 

• Tab on ‘Settings’ tab

• Tap on ‘Application’ option 

• Touch ‘Mange App’ option 

• Now tap on ‘backup’ option 

• A list of items will be displayed over here in backup folder 

• Select the items (which you need to recover) 

• Once you are done with the selection of the items from backup folder, tap on ‘Recover’ option to regain the lost items

If you are having a backup with iTunes program then in ‘Manage Apps’ option select iTunes backup to go through the entire process of data recovery along with the complete scan.

  

If you are not able to recover the lost items from iPad Mini with the above-mentioned steps then you can try any third party software.

• Download and install External Data Recovery Software
• Turn On device and go to the home Page screen
• Choose ‘Settings’ option
• Go to ‘Applications’
• Now clicked on the installed Mac data recovery software
• And click on ‘Recovery’ Button to start recovering the files with a proper scan procedure.

In conclusion, it can be summarized that if drive is overwritten then the lost data can’t be recovered. Else if, the data is residing in Trash Bin then manually recover the lost items. On the other hand, if a complete Mac volume is disappeared or formatted wrongly by mistake then undelete Mac filed with external recovery software.