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*** Important Note ***: this version does not work with Mac OS X 10.8 or later (Mountain Lion, Mavericks and Yosemite). Please download and use newer version from our website.


CardRescue is a photo recovery software for digital camera memory card.

CardRescue is designed to recover deleted photos and videos, or photos lost from formatted or damaged memory cards.

As an effective memory card recovery software, it is good at SD Card recovery, and it also supports CF Card, xD-Picture Card and MemoryStick file and photo recovery.

CardRescue rescues your lost pictures from flash memory card. Some situations that CardRescue can help:

- Photos deleted unintentionally or intentionally from memory cards.
- Photo loss due to "Format" or "ReFormat" operation in the camera or on the computer.
- Memory card corruption, damage, error or inaccessible state.
- Damage or memory card errors due to turning camera off unexpectedly.
- Data loss due to using between different cameras or devices.


CardRescue uses an unique and exclusive SmartScan technology to complete those impossible recovery tasks that other software cannot touch -- SmartScan quickly locates and restores deleted or lost photos files from the memory card, even the memory card is in very bad condition.

Using CardRescue is safe and risk-free. The software performs READ-ONLY operations on your memory card. It does not move, delete, or modify the data on the card to avoid causing further damage or overwriting. It recovers the photos from the source memory card and saves them to the Pictures folder on your hard drive.

CardRescue supports almost all memory card types including SD (Secure Digital) Card, CF (Compact Flash) Card, xD Picture Card, Memory Stick, SmartMedia Card, MicroSD, SDHC, SDXC and more. It supports most image and video formats including raw image formats used by professional DSLR cameras.

CardRescue is an easy to use data recovery software. CardRescues user interface is well designed and users do not require professional skills to use the software. You may just need several clicks to complete the lost pictures recovery. Also, the program provides various file formats selection before lost photos search and provides thumbnail view for the images that can be recovered before saving.

Note: if your camera cannot appear as a drive in Mac when connected via USB, a memory card reader is required. If your desktop or laptop has a built-in memory card reader slot, it will also be OK.