How to Recover Photos from an SD Card on a Mac [Free Download]

SD cards are one of the most popular portable storage devices, widely used in cameras to store important photos. However, the card's small size and light weight make it susceptible to damage, resulting in losing your photos. This post will introduce effective ways to recover photos from an SD card on a Mac. Keep reading!

Method 1. Recover Lost/Deleted Photos from SD Card on a Mac with Software

If your photo or video files are not showing up on an SD card, the first thing you should consider is to back up your SD card by creating a disk image. Then, recover your lost photos from the SD card disk image using professional data recovery software - EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac.

This professional SD card recovery tool can recover lost or deleted photos from an SD card in clicks, even if the SD card has bad sectors, becoming RAW formats, not reading or detecting by your Mac, etc.

✨The Main features of the EaseUS Mac SD card recovery software:

• Perform corrupted SD card recovery on Mac to return stored photos.
• Recover erased photos from a formatted SD card.
• Recover data from a RAW SD card on a Mac, including image files.

Download this powerful SD card photo recovery tool on your Mac, and follow the steps below to recover your lost or deleted photos:

Step 1. Select the SD card

• Correctly connect your memory card to your Mac. Launch EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac.
• Go to "SD Card Recovery", find your Canon/Nikon/Go Pro/DJI/Sony SD card, and click "Search for lost files".

Note: Before data recovery, you'd better click "Disk Backup" from the left sidebar to create a backup of your SD card to avoid further data loss. After backing up the SD card, the software can recover data from your SD card backup, and you can remove the SD card and use it again.

Step 2. Filter lost SD card data

After the scan, all files will be presented in the left panel in the scan results. Find wanted photos, videos, and other files.

Step 3. Preview and recover data

Preview the SD card data and select the wanted files. Then, click the "Recover" button. Don't save the recoverable files to the SD card itself in case of data overwriting.

Method 2. Recover Deleted Photos from SD Card from Hidden Trash Folder

Note that an SD card has a hidden trash folder that stores temporarily deleted photos for a limited time. Insert your SD card into your Mac and check out the following steps:

Step 1. Launch Finder to go to the SD card's root folder.

Step 2. Press "Command + Shift + ." to show the hidden ".Trashes" folder on your SD card.

Step 3. Open the folder and find your lost Photos, right-click the photos you want, and choose "Put Back" to restore them.

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Method 3. Recover Photos from SD Card on a Mac with Data Recovery Service

If your SD card photos are accidentally lost or deleted for some complicated reasons, such as slight physical damage to the SD card, water ingress into the SD card, etc., don't worry; the inaccessible photos on the SD card can be available with professional Data Recovery Services!

Conclusion

This post introduces 3 effective solutions to recover photos from an SD card on a Mac, such as recovering photos from an SD card using EaseUS SD card recovery software, restoring deleted photos from an SD card hidden trash folder, and asking for help from professional data recovery services.

Recover Photos from an SD Card on a Mac FAQs

Here are questions people frequently ask when they search for how to recover photos from an SD card on a Mac; take a look:

1. Is it possible to recover photos from an SD card?

It's possible to recover photos that were deleted or formatted from an SD card. Here's how to recover photos from an SD card:

Step 1. Download the EaseUS software and select the SD card in the EaseUS software window.

Step 2. Filter lost SD card data and locate the photos you want to recover.

Step 3. Preview the recoverable photos by clicking the eye icon and then click "Recover" to save them.

2. Can you recover files from a formatted SD card Mac?

Third-party software, such as EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac, can be used to recover files from an SD card that has been formatted for a limited time. However, don't use the formatted SD card anymore before recovering your files to avoid overwriting its data.