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Mac is an Operating system, which provides point and click graphical user interface (GUI). Mac Operating system has become more popular because of its unique features like high security and reliability. The kernel of Mac OS is based on UNIX and it contains memory protection features, which leads to less number of errors and glitches. Generally, there are only few numbers of viruses that affect Mac OS because of its powerful built-in security architecture. If you want to install any software then you need administrative authorization to install that software on Mac OS. Mac OS allows your system to maintain many background processes without slowing down your user applications. HFS, HFS+ and HFSX are the different types of file system used by Mac OS. File system acts as interface between Operating system and hard drive. Allocation information of each file is stored in the file system. When the users request to read or open a file from hard disk then the Operating system tells the file system to open the file.

Some of the scenarios in which files get deleted or lost on Mac OS X Lion, Leopard, Snow Leopard, etc., are as follows:

• Files lost due to journal corruption: Journal file is like a log file, which keeps track of all file modification done over hard drive. You can use this journaling feature to recover files, when your computer fails due to fluctuation in voltage. If journal file gets corrupted, then it marks invalid entries in the file system, which may corrupt the file system and makes files inaccessible resulting in loss of files.
• Files emptied from Trash: When you delete a file, it is moved to Trash. Afterwards, if you want that file back then you can restore it back from Trash. Sometimes, you may accidentally empty Trash resulting in data loss.
• Files lost due to Catalog file corruption: Catalog file is a system file, which is controlled by file manager through which we can access the files. If catalog file gets corrupted due to spyware, malware or virus attack then it will become difficult for the operating system to access the files, which may also results in loss of files.
• Accidental format: Usually, formatting deletes all files and creates new file system. Therefore, if you accidentally format a hard drive or memory card then there may be chances of deletion of all the files stored on them resulting in loss of files. However, file recovery after format is possible in such cases

Precautions that are to be taken to avoid above-mentioned problems are, always recheck twice while deleting a file from Trash because when you delete a file from Trash you will need data recovery software to recover the file. Generally, when you delete a file from hard drive, it is not permanently deleted. Only pointers pointing to that file get deleted and mark that space available for storing new files. The deleted file still exists on hard drive until it is overwritten by new file. Therefore, avoid saving or copying new files on hard drive from where you have deleted or lost the files. File Recovery Software is a powerful file recovery software, which is able to recover deleted or lost files from Mac hard drive. This software can recover files from HFS+, HFSX, FAT16 and FAT32 formatted volumes. This software supports different types of hard drives like SATA, SCSI and IDE. If volumes of your hard drives are inaccessible then this software performs thorough scanning to recover lost files from inaccessible volumes. This software can also perform file recovery from external USB drive and restore the complete data from it.

Note: In case your system has Windows OS, you can use File Recovery Software Windows Edition, which is the best file recovery software for Windows