How to recover deleted photos from iPhoto

"How can I recover deleted photos from iPhoto? I always accidentally delete pictures on iPhoto, and I did that today, but I want the pictures back! How?"

There are many reasons that may cause you lose your photos from iPhoto, such as accidental deletion, unknowing formatting of Mac partition/volume, system error, emptied iPhoto trash, iPhoto library corruption and other reasons alike.

If you get another iPhoto library backup on your Mac, you are able to recover deleted photos from iPhoto. If not, t is maybe necessary for you to find an iPhoto recovery program to recover deleted photos from iPhoto library.

To tell you the truth, Wondershare Data Recovery for Mac is an excellent iPhoto recovery software which allows you to recover deleted iPhoto library. It is easy to recover deleted photos from iPhoto with a few steps.

Step by step to recover deleted photos from iPhoto

Step 1: Choose a recovery mode to recover iPhoto photos

Download, install and run Data Recovery for Mac to pop up the following main interface. If you want to recover deleted iPhoto photos, then, select “Lost File Recovery” first.

Note: You'd better install the program in another partition of your Mac so that the data will not be overwritten.

Step 2: Scan the location of iPhoto library for deleted photos

Select the partition that you set your iPhoto library in and click “Scan” to begin scanning for deleted photos.

Note: If the issue is caused by partition formatting, then select “Enable Deep Scan” option in the window.

Step 3 Recover deleted photos from iPhoto library

After the scan, all the found fiels will all be displayed in the left of the window, you can preview found photos. Then you need to select the photos you deleted and click “Recover” to save them back to your Mac.

Tips: Please be mind that, don't save the recovered photos back to the original partition.

iPhoto Trash Recovery Method:

If your photos were accidentally dragged to iPhoto trash and you could not drag them back to Mac desktop, you can go to your iPhoto trash, then select those deleted photos and right click to select "Restore to iPhoto Library". You iPhoto trash photos will be retrieved easily. If this method does not help, Wondershare Data Recovery for Mac will help you then.