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Best free Mac Data recovery apps for OS X El Capitan – get back deleted files

July 12, 2015

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How to recover file and data lost or deleted in OS X El Capitan? Look at the best 3 free Mac Data recovery applications for OS X El Capitan, Yosemite or any other OS X versions.

A couple of years ago, I lost my whole assignment accidentally at the time that will be expired just 6 hours later. I was so worried bringing my Macbook to a recovery service in Sydney. The problem was solved successfully in a half of hour, but it costed me $150 for such that emergency case. And then I found it is free, so simply and easy to get data back in OS X with using Mac Data Recover Apps.

Best mac data recovery softwares

Be noticed that, all suggested apps, some of them are commercial softwares, will come with the corresponding download links of full version. That is why you see the tittle includes “Free” word. You can download and get the full version for free or pay for the commercial one at your choice.

1. Wondershare Data Recovery

Wondershare Data Recovery the best Undelete files solution for Mac OS X. With too many options from the modern interface, documents, photos, musics, videos, and single files will be found at lost or deleted files. If the deleted files have not been replaced by others, 100% they can be recovered quickly in a few seconds. Mac users could take a shortcut for particular lost Data by using file type searching option.

How to undelete files in OS X El Capitan with Wondershare Data Recovery?

Look at these 4 steps below to see how quickly and easily deleted files can be recovered:

Step 1- Choose Lost File Recovery mode

Step 2 – Scan the location of Trash on Mac

Step 3 – Preview and recover files from Mac Trash

Step 4 – Save the recovered files on another partition or disk

Wondershare Data Recovery full version download

Wondershare Data Recovery costs $39.95 for the license key, however, the full version can be downloaded for free from here:
Wondershare Data Recovery 3.2.2 full free download

2. Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery

Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery software

Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery is a professional utility tool to undelete data lost due to accident remove, a disk crash, or a other disasters. Stellar Phoenix search and recover variety of files such as documents, images, music, movies lost or deleted from any HFS, HFS+, FAT, ExFAT and NTFS file system based storage media.

Get back lost data from iMac, MacBook Pro, Air, Mac Mini, Mac Pro
Undelete files with their original file names
Stellar Phoenix enables RAW data recovery from the entire Mac hard drive
Provides Safe data recovery from NTFS-based Boot Camp Partitions
Be compatible with all version of Mac OS X including Yosemite

How to recover data on Mac with Stellar Phoenix?

The slider below shows 11 instruction steps for using this one of the best mac data recovery softwares.

Step-1 On the main interface of Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery, click ‘Recover Data’ to start recovering lost or deleted files from Mac hard drives:volumes.

Step-2 Drive Recovery has four sub-modules as shown. The recovery steps are similar for each of these modules. Click ‘Quick Recovery’ under ‘Drive Recovery’ tab.

Step-3 Select the desired volume under the ‘Volume(s)’ list and click right arrow in the bottom-right corner of the screen to start scanning.

Step-4 The progress bar displayed in the interface shows the amount of scanning completed.

Step-6 When you right-click a file in the bottom-right pane, you get two options as shown. Select ‘Quick Look’ for previewing this file with OS X’s Quick Look. Select ‘Recover’ for recovering the selected file.

Step-7 The software shows you the preview of a selected image file with Quick Look.

Step-8 Select all files and folders you need to recover and click ‘Recover’ button at the bottom to initiate recovery.

Step-9 Specify a destination for saving selected files in the ‘Open Directory’ dialog and click ‘Choose’.

Step-10 If you choose to save the recovered data on the same drive (i.e. source), you will get a message as shown. It is recommended to choose destination different from the source.

Step-11 The software starts saving the selected files to your specified destination. You can view the process status in the two progress bars as shown.

Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery full version download

Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery is developed by Stellar Phoenix. It does not matter how much does it cost for the license since the full version is shared to download for free here.
Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery 6.0.3 full free download

3. Data Rescue 4

By it’s special technique, Data Rescue 4 scans the entire Hard drive, all sector of the Disk on Macbook, iMac or other devices using Mac OS X system. After searching all deleted, lost files, it shows the option for recovery. Data Rescue interface is really impressed with the display of lots of pointless animations necessary to identify exactly which files I wanted the app to restore to the disk.