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Mac Data Recovery Guru
Mac Data Recovery Guru
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Mac Data Recovery Guru

Version 5.0

Data recovery software.

3.3
Based on 12 user ratesRead reviews & comments

Mac Data Recovery Guru overview

Mac Data Recovery Guru is the most modern, the most technologically advanced, and the easiest to use Mac data recovery software available. We would not state that if we could not back it up. But back it up we can, and instantly and risk free. Download the Free Demo to be able to quickly see it in action for yourself. This shows you previews of your personally deleted files, proving its effectiveness.

Our Mac Data Recovery results are 100% money-back guaranteed. We stake our reputation on this.

Mac Data Recovery Guru works by employing content-based file scanning. This is a different approach to traditional forms of data recovery which attempt to repair the device in question, which when they go wrong will write over the data you were trying to retrieve in the first place. Our method opens the device in read-only mode, and will search through the entire device for files, or pieces of files, that are present. It reassembles the data it finds into regular files on the fly. Sound complicated? It is, but after years of refinement it appears to the user as a seamless process, and is as easy as browsing through your regular files in the Finder. In fact, it looks almost the same if you look at the screenshots.

What’s new in version 5.0

Updated on Dec 30 2018

Version 4.0.3:
  • Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated

Information

License

Shareware

Size

2.7 MB

Downloads

16631

App requirements

  • Intel 64
  • Mac OS X 10.7 or later
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tonyarabish
tonyarabish
Mar 12 2021
5.0
4.0
Mar 12 2021
4.0
Version: 5.0
Erelive Data Recovery will Easily recover the M4A file without any quality loss.
Iaian7
Iaian7
Jan 19 2018
4.0.2
1.0
Jan 19 2018
1.0
Version: 4.0.2
Within a month of purchasing this, I needed to recover files off an SD card that had accidentally been deleted (the easiest kind of recovery! Nothing had even been written to the card afterward). After at least a half hour scan, Mac Data Recovery Guru claimed to have found hundreds of files, including scores of videos, but none of which corresponded to the file sizes of the expected media. When recovered, none of the media files were usable. Not a single one. Blank videos with 8GB of garbage data that couldn't be fixed even using dedicated video file reconstruction software (I tried several other solutions as well, attempting to extract even broken video streams...nothing remotely usable). I ran through every standard, recommended Mac data recovery app I could, all of which failed (though one at least recovered the correct file names and sizes pretty easily...the files contained no usable data). Then I tried an oddly named utility found elsewhere online (stupid dangerous, I know!), and not only did it recover the correct file names, the videos were restored without any issue at all. Within minutes. Perfectly playable files with audio and visuals. No issues. That said, Mac Data Recovery Guru did find a number of jpeg and raw still images that had been deleted (and I would have expected, overwritten!) from more than 2 years ago. So that's pretty impressive. Conclusion: for recovering accidentally deleted media files on an other pristine SD card, this is clearly worth 0 stars. For recovering images...5 stars! As an all-inclusive file recovery utility, 1 star. I really need something that works with more than just images.
redxpo
redxpo
Jan 13 2018
4.0.2
1.0
Jan 13 2018
1.0
Version: 4.0.2
A complete waste of money. There are Data Recovery apps that work waaaaay better than this one. I'm rather angry they promised so much, but gave back too little. I want my money back. SERIOUSLY UNSATISFIED! DO NOT BUY!!!!!!!
isaachodes
isaachodes
Sep 30 2016
3.0
5.0
Sep 30 2016
5.0
Version: 3.0
Massively helpful in saving a very important file, and the developer was extremely responsive in helping me (as the file I was recovering was rather large!) Worked well, quickly, sanely.
Derekcurrie
Derekcurrie
Aug 27 2016
3.0
0.0
Aug 27 2016
0.0
Version: 3.0
Some odds and ends about this software and its developer: • The developer goes by three different names: (a) FelixDev (b) MacDaddy (c) Ben Slaney. • His web page at http://felixdev.com offers a program called FileAngel. It is my belief that this is an old rendition of Mac Data Recover (Guru). Therefore, don't bother with it. • The developer's web page at http://macdaddy.io provides minimal information about Mac Data Recovery (Guru). He has a much better page, with more information and support at: http://macosxfilerecovery.com I'm hoping the developer can consolidate these various resources in order to avoid confusion.
SonJo
SonJo
Aug 18 2015
2.5
5.0
Aug 18 2015
5.0
Version: 2.5
Oh my gosh this software seriously was a LIFE SAVER! We just took photos at a wedding, and downloaded to computer from CF card...not really checking to see if everything from the day was there, then re-used the card for another portrait session the next day. Later in the day finding out that not everything that I tried to download from the CF card got transferred to my computer from the wedding day! Oh my gosh, freak out time! I tried every software to help, and even tried another software to check the CF card, and it would only find the photos that were already there from the previous day portrait session. Oh lord...panic set in and tears! I downloaded Mac Data Recovery Guru and had it try to recover the deleted files ALL NIGHT...then when I was trying to view the thumbnails to see if things were recovered, it would crash and shut down. I tried re-starting and doing it again a few times and every time for whatever reason it would CRASH! I was super upset and frustrated thinking what am I going to tell our clients. We lost their family photos....can't go back! ...then a voice inside my head told me to try putting the CF card in the computer and search the CF card with Guru software. I got nervous as I was seeing the previous day portraits popping up in the thumbnail preview, but then I just about had a heart attack...the wedding photos were popping up in the thumbnail preview! I thought there was no hope since I formatted the CF card and re-used it for another session, and also tried other software that wouldn't find anything, and this software, Data Recovery Guru saved our life!! What a serious miracle and worth the money spent to purchase this app to get all those photos again! Oh thank you SO MUCH!! You made us so happy!!! ~Sonia
conan99
conan99
Jan 27 2015
2.5
4.0
Jan 27 2015
4.0
Version: 2.5
Simply put - recovers files the other more expensive programs don't or can't. Very pleased with the recovery of images and movies I thought would have been lost ages ago.
Big Johnson
Big Johnson
May 5 2014
2.5
1.0
May 5 2014
1.0
Version: 2.5
FAIL! I've had this app for a while but never really tested it until yesterday - glad it wasn't an emergency! I deleted a folder containing an album of FLAC files and then I wanted them back. I let the app run overnight while I slept and today it said it found 64,453 files. Great, but not a single FLAC file! I add and convert a lot of audio files on my computer. I've deleted hundreds of AAC and FLAC files recently, but according to the results window the Guru found exactly ONE AAC (m4a) file! For each category of file found it shows no count for the number of files, and none of the files had any part of the original name, just generic names like 5825.txt and 1412.jpeg. Out of curiosity I selected a few categories and let it recover the files. I expected that to be pretty quick since it had already located them, but it took around 3 hours. In the "mp4 video" folder were 16 mp4 files that used to be music videos. ONE of them now plays as a music video, the other 15 have lost the video and only have audio. In a folder called "M4P" there are 169 tracks listed, all with m4p extensions. All those tracks were actually m4a files, so that's some of the missing AAC tracks - Guru mislabeled them. It did recover 12 mp3 files from one album deleted within the past week. Me thinks the guru is actually a novice. SEEMS WORTHLESS AND A HUGE WASTE OF MONEY TO ME!
GianB2747
GianB2747
Apr 21 2014
2.5
0.0
Apr 21 2014
0.0
Version: 2.5
I deleted one of my Logic Pro X projects, will this software be able to help me?
OlegT2047
OlegT2047
Feb 20 2014
2.5
5.0
Feb 20 2014
5.0
Version: 2.5
I've tried many software before i found Mac Data Recovery Guru. Many other software can recover photo, audio and video files and they do their job just fine but i've searched for some specific software to recover my work sessions. I'm a professional arranger and i've lost all my data in one minute due to WD driver's error described here: http://community.wd.com/t5/News-Announcements/External-Drives-for-Mac-Experiencing-Data-Loss-with-Maverick-OS/m-p/613777#M379 I have to say, it was the only problem for ~4 years with this External HDD and i had no problems with it until Mavericks update. All software i found was useless for my purposes. After some additional searches i found 2 apps with possibility of restoring .lso files from Logic Pro (and many others formats, of course). It was Mac Data Recovery Guru and one more app from iSkySoft. I've tried both of them but iSkySoft's app did not find any .lso files, so it was useless for me, too. And only Mac Data Recovery Guru found almost all of my working sessions. Of course, they did not have the right names but Logic Pro can open it and it's most important for me. This software saved me a lot of time and money. Many thanks to Ben from app's support team. He helped me a lot, too. I have to say, searching 2Tb RAID HDD connected to FireWire800 takes a lot of time (about 24 hours) and one feature which will be very helpful is saving and opening a list of scanned and found files (Disk Drill have this possibility, for example) because if you disconnect your HDD and then reconnect it again you need to search from beginning. I did not found this feature. This software is highly recommended for pro-users who did not have a backup (you can find a list of supported formats on developer's page) and for all other users who needs to recover files from reformatted or deleted partitions and drives
Mitch-k
Mitch-k
Dec 9 2012
2.0
0.0
Dec 9 2012
0.0
Version: 2.0
I was interested in this, so I downloaded the demo. I launched it and selected the usb stick to scan from 'Drives'. When I clicked 'Start Scan', Data Recovery Guru asks for my admin password! (process system.privilege.admin) What's that about?
anonymous-snipe-141
anonymous-snipe-141
May 22 2012
1.4.1
0.0
May 22 2012
0.0
Version: 1.4.1
I recently installed a replacement hard drive on my MCP, restored from time machine and then was horrified TM had deleted back up editions from 4 months last year in order to incorporate a 355GB dump of the same restored volume. So stopped the process, after a few hundred MB and want to see if I can recover the erased but not over written time machine folders. Will this app help?
Zerafiall
Zerafiall
Mar 20 2012
1.4.0
0.0
Mar 20 2012
0.0
Version: 1.4.0
I'm guessing (and hoping for my own security sake) that doesn't work with "Secure empty trash" or "rm -p file" since the overwrite the data... right? So far that's the case with my testing.
Iaian7
Iaian7
Jan 19 2018
1.0
Jan 19 2018
1.0
Version: null
redxpo
redxpo
Jan 13 2018
1.0
Jan 13 2018
1.0
Version: null
isaachodes
isaachodes
Sep 30 2016
5.0
Sep 30 2016
5.0
Version: null
SonJo
SonJo
Aug 18 2015
5.0
Aug 18 2015
5.0
Version: null
conan99
conan99
Jan 27 2015
4.0
Jan 27 2015
4.0
Version: null
Big Johnson
Big Johnson
May 5 2014
1.0
May 5 2014
1.0
Version: null
OlegT2047
OlegT2047
Feb 20 2014
5.0
Feb 20 2014
5.0
Version: null
manzanat
manzanat
Apr 22 2013
5.0
Apr 22 2013
5.0
Version: null
Dean-Lodzinski
Dean-Lodzinski
Mar 28 2013
3.5
Mar 28 2013
3.5
Version: null
Howard-Donner
Howard-Donner
Sep 5 2012
2.0
Sep 5 2012
2.0
Version: null
RicarDOG
RicarDOG
Aug 26 2012
2.5
Aug 26 2012
2.5
Version: null
tonyarabish
tonyarabish
Jan 11 2030
5.0
4.0
Jan 11 2030
4.0
Version: 5.0
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