By (author unknown), MacOSXHints.com – June 28, 2010 at 10:30AM
There are a lot of good tools out there to restore data from corrupted memory cards but most of them are for Windows. I remembered using an open source command line tool for this purpose. It is called PhotoRec and is cross platform as well. Although their web site has detailed instructions on how to use the software I still wanted to share my straightforward procedure for doing so on a Mac (you are still doing it at your own risk).
Here is a summary of the step-by-step procedure.
- Download PhotoRec (the latest version is 6.11.3).
- Extract the files in the Finder (I downloaded it in Downloads folder and assume it is located there).
- Open the Terminal and type (watch out if you have a different version number):
$ cd Downloads/testdisk-6.11.3/darwin/ - Run the PhotoRec with typing (no need to be super use …
