How to Recover Data from Flash Drive on Mac: Full Guide 2019

So you have just plugged your USB drive or pen drive into your Mac computer but find that there are no files on it at all, almost as if it has been wiped clean, and you begin to panic. This kind of thing is actually quite common but luckily, you can restore these files using third-party software. In this article, we will take a look at how you can recover your flash drive data on Mac and why data becomes lost on flash drives.

Why Does Data Get Lost on USB  Flash Drives?

• Corruption Via Sharing: because USB devices are plugged into many different computers and devices, they have a very high chance of becoming corrupted due to frequent data transfers.

• File System Corruption: if your USB files have too much damage done to them, that damage can corrupt your RAW file, which is the file that lets you access the USB drive.

• A Nasty Virus: if you use an unsafe computer and get a malware script or virus placed onto your USB drive, this can result in corruption of the files. The virus will slowly infect each file and delete them.

• Unplugging Without Ejecting: when you just yank the USB drive out of your computer without using the eject button, this can cause formatting issues which can result in data loss.

How to Recover Data from Flash Drive on Your Mac Computer?

Simply download AnyRecover, a recovery software for Mac that can recover all kinds of files. It comes with a free trial, 100% security, and has one of the highest recovery rates out of all recovery software available online.

Here is how you would recovery files from a USB flash drive.

Step 1. Open up AnyRecover and select External Device Recovery mode from the home interface.

Step 2. Connect your USB flash drive to your mac computer so that the recovery process can commence. Click on USB Flash Drive and hit the Next button.

Step 3. Then you can either check "all file types" or individually select the type of file you want to recover. Hit the Scan button.

Step 4. Wait for AnyRecover to get back to you with your lost files. Once it is done scanning, it will list the files out to you based on type. Select which ones you want to recover. Hit the Recover button once you've selected all your files.

Note:

• Use the "All Around Recovery Mode" if the external device recovery mode fails. In doing so, you deepen your scan for the lost files.

• Move the recovered files to your computer; somewhere safe but definitely not the USB flash drive you just got them from.

Tips For Recovering Data from a Flash Drive

• Always remember that your files are never actually deleted but get marked for reuse, meaning that they will become overwritten by other files in the computer. All files are available to be retrieved prior to be overwritten on.

• Safely remove your USB drive from your computer every time to avoid any damage to it.

• A soon as you realize that your files are gone from your USB flash drive, stop using it immediately! You want to make sure that you don't overwrite the files through continued use.

• Always use recovery software that can pull a large library of files types, as this gives you the most potential for recovery success.