The Best Way to Recover Deleted Videos on Mac

Eleanor Reed

Dec 23, 2022 • Filed to: Photo/Video/Audio Solutions • Proven solutions

Once you deleted or lost video files from the external hard drive, do not save any new data on it. OR it will cause your videos overwritten, it cannot restore back again. Keep your hard drive on a safe place and find a best solution to retrieve it back. On this page, we will introduce the best and powerful Video Recovery Software for Mac to help your recover permanently deleted video back.

The first thing you should do is to search your deleted video on Mac trash. Go to the Trash folder, check and find your video files name, and restore all deleted videos from Trash.

The Best and Powerful Recoverit Video Recovery Software for Mac

Recoverit Photo Recovery is the most effective video recovery tool. It can easily to restore deleted or lost videos from Mac or other external storage devices on Mac. It can restore permanently deleted files from Mac trash.

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Part 2. How to Recover Deleted Videos on Mac

Download and install Recoverit Video Recovery on your Mac. If you are working on Windows computer, you should download the Windows version and go on. Follow the next simple steps to get your deleted videos back.

Step 1 Launch Recoverit Video Recovery program, select the location (connect the hard drive to the Mac) to get started.

Step 2 Recoverit Mac Video Recovery software will start to scanning the device to search your lost videos.

Step 3 After the scanning, you can preview some recovered photos files. Select you video files and click "Recover" button to get them back.

Step 4 If you wish to recover large-sized or complex videos, then you can also click on the "Advanced Video Recovery" feature on the bottom-left corner of the screen. This will perform a deep scan, particularly to recover lost videos.

Step 5 Wait for a while as the application would look for the needed video fragments and would recover your videos with its splicing technique. In the end, you can preview the recovered videos on the native interface of Recoverit. Simply select the videos you wish to get back and click on the "Recover" button. Please save them to another location instead of its original location to avoid the overwriting of data.

There are many reasons that cause video loss on your Mac or storage device, such as deletion or formatting of hard drive, virus inflection, or even system error. When video loss issue happens, you'd better do not do any further operation on your Mac or storage device. Because the lost videos are not actually gone permanently, they are just becoming inaccessible. This is the reason why you can achieve Mac video recovery with Recoverit data recovery for Mac.