SD Card Recovery – Recover Deleted Data on Mac

SD card, also named as secure digital memory card, is widely-used in portable devices like Android phones and tablets, digital cameras, etc.

You can use SD card to store files to external storage and free up space of your internal memory. Moreover, using SD card to keep files is a handy decision especially when you change a new digital device.

However, accidents like SD card damaged, disabled, corrupted, formatted, virus attacked, etc. lead to data loss on SD card.

In this post, we will show you the easiest way to get SD card data recovery on Mac.

• Part 1. What is the best SD card recovery for Mac?
• Part 2. How to recover deleted data from SD card on Mac?
• Part 3. Tips of SD card recovery on Mac

Part 1. What is the best SD card recovery for Mac?

There are various SD card recovery software in the market.

Disk Drill, PhotoRec, Softtote Mac Data Recovery, MiniTool Power Data Recovery, EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard, and Apeaksoft Data Recovery.

After testing for many times, we found only Apeaksoft Data Recovery is the best one with high recovery rate and short scanning time.

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Check this video tutorial to get data recovery from SD card on Mac here.

Part 2. How to recover deleted data from SD card on Mac?

Step 1. Scan SD card

Free download this SD card data recovery tool on your Mac.

Put your SD card in the card reader, and insert the card reader to your Mac.

In the main interface, you need to checkmark the following options:

File types: Here you are given the option to scan and restore image, audio, video, email, documents and other data like system files, DLL, Temp files, etc.

Removable drive: You need to tick the box of the name of your SD card.

Then click "Scan" to scan your SD card.

Step 2. Recover data from SD card

After the scan is complete, the result will be displayed in type list or path list.

Click the data folder from the left sidebar, and view the detailed files on the right window.

Confirm those items you want, and click "Recover" to save the lost or deleted files from SD card to your computer safely.

Part 3. Tips of SD card recovery on Mac

The followings are some tips to fix corrupted SD card recovery Mac problems, and you can also take measures during recovering lost data from your SD card.

Before suffering SD card data loss, your SD memory card will run into the corruption first. So you can use methods below to fix the corrupted SD card by yourself.

• Change another digital device and insert your SD card.
• Use SanDisk recovery Mac built-in solution.
• Format SD card if there is nothing important to use it as a new one.
• Repair SD card driver or reinstall the driver.

Here are some smart ideas you can take to prevent unnecessary data loss.

• To stop your device from overwriting with new data, you had better take out the SD card and connect it with your Mac computer using a card reader.
• Do not defray or write files when you found the SD card data loss. Just pull it out as soon as possible.
• Remember to recover data from your SD card to your computer instead of the original SD card.
• Think twice before formatting SD card. And stay away from SD card virus infection, power failure and other similar cases.