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How to Recover Lost PDF Files on Mac?

2012-09-03 19:20:15 / Posted by to PC Utilities Topic
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PDF can be known as "Portable Document Format". PDF files are made by Adobe Acrobat. It is used for representation of a document file along with attributes like text, font, graphics and much more. PDF documents can be lost or deleted because of various reasons like accidental deletion, Os crash, emptying Recycle Bin, unintentional formatting or re-formatting etc. PDF files could get corrupt because of virus attack, software malfunction etc. These reasons can lead to data loss, not only PDF, but also other files like videos, images, music, etc.

PDF document often includes a lot of important information of your work, and everybody will probably be mad at PDF documents losing. You may find it is easy to recover lost PDF document files if you continue reading. Is there any solution to get back the lost PDF files efficiently? Luckily that you come here and this article would show you the best way to recover PDF files you lost from any type of storage device, including USB drive, memory card, laptop and so on. All can be done once you have the Mac Data Recovery or Amacsoft Data Recovery Pro.

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Tutorial to Rescue Deleted PDF Document on Mac

Step 1: Choose the Recovery mode

On the four recovery modes, Deleted File Recovery can recover deleted files from a partition or removable media, regardless deleted by Command + Delete or emptied from the Trash. This recovery option is recommended at first, for it takes you a short time to retrieve your deleted files.

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Step 2: Select the file location

Find the logical drive the place you deleted your PDF files, if you have several drives on your Mac. Then click on "Scan" to go looking your deleted PDF files.

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Step 3: Select and Recover Lost PDF Files on Mac

Once the scanning finishes, all files you deleted are listed with the original path, regardless you deleted them completely from Library, desktop, or trash, etc. Undoubtedly, files you emptied from Trash are in the "Trash" folder. Or else you can search the file name by the "Filter options" to obtain it fast if you remember it.

Before recovery, it is possible to preview the file to be sure the files or quanlity. Common image formats, documents and archives can preview directly. When checking the file for recovery, press the "Recover" to get them back.

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Step 4: Save the the recoverable PDF files

Don't save the recovered PDF document on the same place where you lost them, if you happen to overwrite them. If you don't find every one of the files, the deleted files will be overwritten for your new files' storage.

It's done to recover formatted PDF files on Mac, we highly recommend you free download this PDF File Recovery for Mac to try it now. Not only recover PDF files, but also recover videos, music, photos etc. on Mac

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