Thursday, November 18, 2010

How to recover lost Data from iDisk in Mac

iDisk is one of the most fascinating discovery by Apple for Mac users. Apple has come up with iDisk, a standard subscription based file hosting service for all its Mac users, who use MobileMe. Furthermore, MobileMe is also a subscription based utility to provide Internet service to iOS, Mac OS X and Windows. With iDisk, you can easily store and remotely access digital pictures, songs, videos, movies, personal files etc.

Moreover, you can integrate iDisk to the Mac OS X (from 10.3.9 to 10.6), which appears as a network drive on the desktop. However, sometimes, while accessing iDisk through Mac OS 10.4, iDisk gives error messages and thus, could not be mounted. This situation leads to the loss or inaccessibility of your valuable data and you need to opt for any Mac recovery utility to recover them back.

In the above situation, while trying to access your iDisk data through Mac OS X 10.4.11 or so, you may encounter the below error message which will restrict your access to the iDisk volume:

“The volume for iDisk cannot be found”

Following the above error message, while trying to access the iDisk volume through Finder, it fails to pop-up on the desktop. When you try access your personalized volume from the iDisk, it just do not do anything. However, when you try to access Other User's iDisk, after typing your user-name, password, you receive another error as below:

“Sorry, the operation could not be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -50).”

Cause:
There can be a number of possible issue behind the above erroneous situation ranging from any incompatibility issue, corruption to the file system which indeed conflicting with the synchronization to the iDisk, Virus or malware infection or any other software/hardware malfunction etc.

In such a case, Apple recommends to download and install the latest version of Mac OS X, however, sometimes, the error still persists and moreover, chances are there that you may also loose the unsynchronized iDisk data from your hard drive. Hence, it is safe to run any good
Mac iDisk data recovery software to recover back the data.

Mac data recovery software are meant to scan your volumes and locate all your lost, deleted or inaccessible data in order to recover them back. Moreover, these utilities are very simple to use and with inbuilt detailed instructions, any person without much technical knowledge can be able to use it.