Recover an Overwritten File on Mac
These days Mac operating system is highly being used by its users, just because of its good performance and advanced features. This operating system has become very popular among the users. But sometimes data from the operating system gets deleted and on the other hand many new files or programs get saved then it automatically overwrites previous versions that were saved.
On one side it would be considered nice because it is helpful to make hard disk space empty but on the other hand becomes a big problem when the overwritten files are needed urgently. In this situation the user becomes unable to get those files back easily because an overwritten file could be an easy mistake to make, but can be very difficult to undo. But at this situation user must not lose their hope, as there are still the way to recover overwritten file by using Time machine. With this you can recover multiple versions of an overwritten file.
Follow some important steps to recover the deleted files:
- At first open the folder where the overwritten files have been located in Finder. And if it is placed on the desktop then simply close all other windows.
- Then in Time Machine select the “Enter Time Machine”
- After this click on the arrow or the point of time that are available on the bars at right side. This will be helpful to know as how the file looked earlier. Then select the files or folders that need to be recovered.
- Then at last click the restore button and then the deleted or overwritten file will be restored back to the drive.
In this way you can easily perform overwritten file recovery. But Time Machine is not always successful in that case you can go for third party software known as Mac hard drive recovery software. This software has powerful algorithm that performs advanced scanning of the Mac hard drive and then recovers overwritten files in a safe and secure place. This software has easy interface thus easy to use.
