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What is Mac File Recovery?
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Macintosh hard drives are formatted to HFS, HFS+, HFSX and HFS Wrapper file systems to store all the data. Corruption in any of these file systems primarily occurs due to human error, software malfunction, inadvertent formatting, deletion, virus attack to name a few. Data loss or inaccessibility is the primary issue that might encounter after your file system is damaged/ corrupted. To systematically recover your files and folders under such situations, use powerful Mac File Recovery software.
General Information of file systems used by Macintosh:
File system |
Year of introduction |
Original operating system |
Maximum filename length |
Maximum pathname length |
Maximum |
Maximum volume size |
MFS |
1984 |
Mac OS |
255 bytes |
No path (flat filesystem) |
256 MiB |
256 MiB |
HFS |
1985 |
Mac OS |
31 bytes |
Unlimited |
2 GiB |
2 TiB |
HFS Plus |
1998 |
Mac OS 8.1 |
255 UTF-16 characters |
Unlimited |
16 EiB |
16 EiB |
Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery v4.1 is an advanced and professional Mac File Recovery application that recovers lost data from lost, corrupted, deleted and formatted Mac drives. Mac File Recovery supports recovery of lost data from HFS and HFS+ volumes Macintosh based operating system.
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