hello everyone it's mike here and this is wondershare recovery a platform where we
help you troubleshoot unexpected technical errors and retrieve any deleted files along
the way in today's episode we'll talk about the best ways to recover deleted pictures
from photobooth on your mac for viewers who don't know photobooth is a built-in
photo application for your imac or macbook that allows users to
take selfies by applying different filters and make them a little bit more creative
photobooth stores all the pictures in a dedicated directory on the mac
and allows users to access them whenever they want but in many situations external factors
like malware or third-party applications may interfere with the overall functionality
of photobooth and can result in your personal images being deleted unexpectedly so if you've
lost your important photo booth pictures keep watching cause in this video we'll talk about
how to retrieve deleted photo booth pictures from your mac now before we go any further make sure
to hit that subscribe button and notification bell so you don't miss out on any of our future videos
so before we start right away let's first understand
why do these pictures become inaccessible or what factors might remove them from your hard drive
one of the most common reasons behind unexpected deleted pictures in photo booth
are sudden systems shutdowns let's say you're editing an image
in photo booth and all of a sudden your macbook battery dies
in this situation the unexpected shutdown might delete the picture from your macbook's drive
as i mentioned before in the beginning of this video external factors like
virus attacks are also a major reason why people end up losing pictures in photo booth
if you have recently downloaded a file from the internet or connected an unknown external
storage device to your system chances are your system might have been infected by a virus
and finally you might also lose photo booth pictures if you accidentally delete them from
the directory there are many cases where users unintentionally end up deleting important data
while organizing their drives and hard drives and trying to save space on their drive
now regardless of what might have caused your photobooth photos to go missing from your system
there are a few ways to get them back in fact recovering photo booth pictures
is easier than you think all you have to do is install wondershare recovery on your
mac and follow these easy steps to recover those deleted pictures being a full scale data recovery
solution wondershare recovery is designed to help users recover different types of deleted files
from various storage devices whether you want to recover data from an external storage device
or from your macbook's built-in hard drive recovery will allow you to perform an
in-depth scan and fetch all the deleted files and restore them to your system without any hassle
one of the key features of using wondershare recovery is the fact that it supports a wide
variety of file formats which means apart from images you'll be able to recover other files
very easily let me quickly walk you through the step-by-step procedure of how to use wondershare
recovery to retrieve deleted photo booth pictures on your mac firstly install recovery on your
computer and launch the software to get started now click on hard drives and locations in the left
menu section and then go to select folder under quick access now select the photo booth directory
in the target location the directory is normally located in the pictures folder
so we'll select the pictures folder to begin with as soon as you've selected the location
and run the application wondershare recover it will automatically initiate the scanning process
please be patient as this may take a while to complete after the scanning is done you'll see
a list of all the files that have been deleted from your macbook go through these results one by
one and select the ones that you want to get back you can even click the preview button to check the
preview of each file when you've selected the pictures that you want to restore simply click
the recover button at the bottom and choose the target location where you want to save them that's
it within a few steps you've managed to recover your deleted photo booth pictures on your system
so that's how you can get back deleted images from the photobooth app on your macbook
now while we're on the subject of recovering deleted pictures let's also take a look at
some of the preventative measures to avoid unexpected deletion of images from your storage
device follow these tips so that you won't have to deal with unexpected data loss in the future
whether it's a camera smartphone or even your macbook always make a habit
of removing your storage device or sd card when it's not in use many people abruptly
remove the external drive from their computer which can instantly damage the
file structure and can lead to accidental deletions of data or even data corruption
if you are trying to record a movie or click a picture in photo booth while there isn't enough
space on your hard drive to accommodate for those new files then you'll most likely have
to deal with an unexpected deletion a way to avoid this situation is to first delete
any unnecessary files and then record your video or take your picture using photo booth
you should also make it a habit to never shoot a video or take a picture using photobooth
when your device is running low on juice this is because if your battery is low your
device may shut down at any point resulting in that recorded picture or photo being deleted
this is another habit that will keep your drive and its data safe if you have multiple drives
always make sure to store them properly so that you don't experience any physical damage also
do the same with your device as well ensure that your laptop is not overheating as this
can cause the ssd in your device to degrade and cause memory issues as well
finally if you want to increase the performance of your drive long term make sure to offload
those files and format your drive regularly formatting your drive will prevent unexpected
file corruptions and will also make sure that your drive is running as fast as possible
the more filled up your drive is the slower it can perform so that's a wrap on today's
video where we talked about how to use one share recovery to get back those deleted photo booth
pictures even though using wondershare recovery to retrieve deleted files is an easy process to
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