Recovering Lost Photos after Upgrading to Snow Leopard

Mac OS X 10.6 or Snow Leopard is the latest major release of Mac OS X family of operating systems. It features several performance-enhancing and end-user upgrades that make it dominant over its earlier versions. For these reasons, Mac users often upgrade to Snow Leopard over the earlier installed Mac OS X version. But due to some reasons, when you upgrade to Snow Leopard, the already existing iPhoto data might get deleted. iPhoto is an Apple utility designed to organize, edit, share, import, and print digital photos on your Mac OS X computer. There have been several instances in which user's iPhoto data gets unexpectedly deleted once it upgrades to Snow Leopard. To deal with such problems, you need to have a Time Machine backup that could restore the deleted photos. But for users that don't have such backup, Digital Photo Recovery Software can help.

As a practical instance of these issues, suppose you follow the below sequence of steps:

Your use Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) on your computer

You upgrade the computer to Snow Leopard using the installation media

After the system reboots, you find that all of your iPhoto files are missing. Either the whole iPhoto Library or all photos from this iPhoto Library no longer exist.

This problem is frequent after installation of Snow Leopard and has several evidences. One of the possible reasons is incompatibility issues of Snow Leopard and iPhoto application, but the actual problem is still needed to be addressed.

The deleted photos might be of important concern. They can worth memories of your life, your last spent holidays or your family photographs. To restore them, you should check your last available Time Machine backup. But if it is unavailable or exist in unrecoverable state, one of the most suitable option is to use a Photo Recovery software.

The special purposed digital photo recovery Software is available with unique capabilities of restoring the deleted digital pictures, audios, and videos. The software provide a simple, intuitive interface and allow you to recover deleted, missing or lost digital data after any logical crash.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery (Mac) is a reliable utility that recovers lost or deleted photos and other digital files from hard drives, digital cameras, memory cards, and other storage media. The photo recovery software is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), 10.5 (Leopard), 10.4 (Tiger), and 10.3.9 (Panther).