Digital cameras have made it convenient to capture beautiful moments of life. You can retain the ephemeral memories of events gone by in the form of photos in various storage media including memory cards, memory sticks, hard drives, hard disks, and USBs. Being a Mac OS X user, you can share, organize and edit your photos by using iPhoto. This application by Apple enables you to manage photos, irrespective of the format, in an easier and simpler manner. However, you may face some occasional problems while transferring photos from a digital camera. If iPhoto crashes in the middle of a transfer process, photos may become inaccessible from the storage media. In such situations, you may be required to recover lost photos from an updated backup. However, if no backup is available, you can perform Mac photo recovery by using advanced digital photo recovery tools.

Sample this: You return from a marvelous vacation to picturesque Venice after capturing the beauty of the place in form of countless photos. One fine morning, you connect your card via card reader to your Mac computer and iPhoto starts transferring photos to the system. In between, iPhoto crashes, halting the transfer process. You try and access the pictures in your digital camera but fail to do so.

Grounds of the issue

The file system of the storage media suffered a damage when iPhoto application crashed in the middle of photo transfer process.

Resolution

In order to fix the issue and get hold of photos, you may need to observe the following steps:

· You must format the memory card in your camera once again so as to fix damaged file system · Use an updated backup to restore pictures on the formatted memory card · If you don't have a backup or if it doesn't fulfill your requirement, then you must use a digital photo recovery software.

These third-party perform Mac photo recovery from various storage media including memory cards, memory sticks, hard drives, USBs and other removable media by applying improved scanning algorithms.

Being embedded with simple and interactive graphical user interface, these utilities can be used by anybody and do not require any prior technical knowledge.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a reliable and safe software which recovers lost, deleted or formatted photos in three simple steps viz select, scan and save. The Mac
photo recovery software is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6(Snow Leopard), 10.5 (Leopard), 10.4 (Tiger), and 10.3.9 (Panther).

Author:K MADHAV