Wondershare Recoverit 14.0.20.6 — Mac version

Check macOS compatibility

Recoverit needs macOS 10.14 Mojave or newer. It’s an Intel app at heart, so Apple Silicon Macs run it through Rosetta 2—no native ARM build yet.

What it can scan

The app digs through internal drives, external HDDs, SSDs, USB sticks and SD cards. Pretty much any storage you can plug into your Mac.

After you install

Formatting cards mid-shoot and rescuing RAW files

Freelance photographers and videographers who format cards mid-shoot. The app reads RAW files and common video formats from SD cards and external drives without fuss. If a card gets pulled too soon or reformatted by accident, Recoverit treats it like any other drive — pick it, scan it, preview what turns up.

People with older Macs running Mojave or Catalina get a straight run. No need to update macOS beyond what the machine handles comfortably. The Intel build runs natively on those machines, so the scan engine feels snappy even on a 2015 MacBook Pro with a spinning hard disk.

Musicians and podcasters who lose project folders overnight. Recoverit recognises WAV, MP3, MIDI and OGG files in the deep scan, so a vanished Logic session or field-recording folder often surfaces with filenames intact. The preview pane plays audio before you commit to a full recovery, which saves dragging back corrupted files.

Office workers who empty the Trash and realise the quarterly report went with it. DOCX, XLSX, PPTX and PDF recovery is baked in. The app doesn’t need file extensions to match — it reads file signatures, so a document renamed by the system during deletion still shows up under its real type.

Filtering file types to speed up your first scan

• File type filter — The scan window defaults to “All Files”. Tick only the categories you need (documents, photos, video, audio) and the scan finishes faster. Less clutter in the results list too.
• Preview quality — Crank it down to “Standard” if you’re working on a machine with 8GB RAM or less. Full-resolution previews chew memory and slow the whole scan on larger drives.
• Scan location — Recoverit sometimes suggests the whole Macintosh HD. Don’t let it. Pick the specific volume or folder where the files lived. A targeted scan on a 256GB SSD takes minutes; a full system scan takes ages.
• Recovery destination — Never save recovered files back to the same drive you’re scanning. Plug in an external disk and set that as the output. Writing to the source drive can overwrite the very data you’re trying to pull back.

Running Recoverit on Apple Silicon Macs via Rosetta

Will it work on a Mac with Apple Silicon? Yes, through Rosetta 2. The app is Intel only, but macOS translates it automatically on first launch. The interface feels the same; scan speeds are comparable to native Intel machines of a similar age. The one quirk: the app’s disk-access permission prompt sometimes hides behind the main window, so check the Dock if nothing seems to happen.

Does deep scan find things Quick Scan missed? Usually, yes. Quick Scan reads the file table for recently deleted entries. Deep Scan ignores the table and hunts for file signatures sector by sector. On a formatted drive, Quick Scan returns almost nothing — Deep Scan pulls back photos, documents and media files that the system no longer lists. The trade-off is time. A 1TB external drive can take a couple of hours.

Can it recover files after a macOS reinstall? Partly. If you wiped the disk before reinstalling, the original file table is gone. Deep Scan still picks up intact file signatures that the installer didn’t overwrite. Files stored on the part of the disk now occupied by the new system are likely gone for good. The sooner you run the scan after a reinstall, the better your odds.

Does it handle encrypted or password-protected drives? Recoverit scans FileVault-encrypted volumes only after you’ve unlocked them in macOS first. It doesn’t bypass encryption — it reads the unlocked volume like any other mounted disk. BitLocker and other non-Mac encryption schemes aren’t supported on the Mac version.

What if the app can’t see my external drive? Check the cable and try a different port. If the drive appears in Disk Utility but not in Recoverit, unmount it in Disk Utility (don’t eject) and relaunch the app. The drive usually appears on the second attempt. Drives with physical damage — clicking noises, refusing to spin up — need professional recovery; software alone won’t help.

Pausing a deep scan overnight and resuming later

• Pause and resume scan — The pause button isn’t just cosmetic. You can stop a deep scan halfway, shut the Mac lid, and pick up where you left off the next morning. Scan progress saves automatically to the app’s working folder.
• Search within results — After a scan, the search bar filters by filename. On a messy 500GB scan with thousands of hits, typing “invoice” or “IMG_” cuts the list to something you can actually work with.
• Sort by file type — The results pane groups files by category (Photos, Documents, Video, Audio, Others). Click any category header to collapse sections you don’t care about. Saves scrolling through ZIP files and executables when all you want is last week’s spreadsheets.
• Thumbnail preview for photos — The preview pane shows thumbnails for JPG, PNG, TIFF and RAW files. You can step through images with the arrow keys without opening each one. Corrupted files show a broken-image icon, so you know not to bother recovering them.
• Drag-and-drop recovery — You don’t have to use the “Recover” button. Tick the files you want, then drag them straight to a Finder window. The copy behaves the same way; it just feels more direct.

Installing the app on the same drive you are recovering

Installing the app on the drive they’re trying to recover from. If you’ve accidentally deleted files from your main Mac SSD, download Recoverit onto a different machine or an external bootable drive. Every new write to the source disk — including installing recovery software — risks overwriting the deleted data. Once overwritten, it’s gone.

Running a full scan with every file type ticked. The impulse is to cast the widest net. In practice, scanning for “All Files” on a large drive fills the results with system logs, cache files and app binaries you’ll never need. Stick to the categories that match what you lost. You can always run a second scan with different filters.

Recovering files directly to the desktop. The desktop lives on the same internal drive. If that drive is the one you’re scanning, writing recovered files back to it is a gamble — they might overwrite other recoverable data. Always use a separate external drive or a USB stick as the recovery destination.

Giving up after Quick Scan. Quick Scan takes seconds and returns recently deleted items. If your files aren’t there, people assume they’re unrecoverable and close the app. Deep Scan digs much further. Let it run. Go make a cuppa. Come back when the progress bar finishes.

Ignoring the preview pane. Recovering everything the scan finds fills your destination drive with junk — partial files, system fragments, temp data. Preview first. Tick only the files that look intact. The preview pane plays video and audio, shows document contents and displays photos, so you know what you’re getting before you commit the disk space.

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Once it’s running, you can hunt for deleted files across your machine and connected devices. Quick scan first, deep scan if that comes up short.

• macOS 10.14 or newer
• Intel processor (Apple Silicon via Rosetta 2)