Permanently Erase Data from Digital Camera on Mac

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Before you sell or donate your digital camera, you'd better permanently erase all your private photos and videos in the memory card. With Mac disk utility, you can erase the digital camera memory card. However, after erasing, the lost photos and videos in your digital camera still can be recovered by data recovery software. If you want to permanently erase data from digital camera on Mac, you need special Mac data erasure tool.

This article will introduce the best and most reliable Mac data erasure software for digital camera. Also, there are detail steps to use the software and completely wipe data from digital camera memory card on Mac. It will help you protect your privacy information against data leakages.

When Is It Necessary to Erase the Data from Digital Camera?

In some cases, you have to wipe the data completely to protect the information or comply to policy. These reasons are about protecting sensitive information or are non-negotiable. For example:

• Before you sell/donate/lend camera: This is absolutely critical. If you are transferring ownership or even just lending your camera to a friend, you must perform a complete erase to prevent your personal, private, or professional photos from falling into the wrong hands.
• After photographing sensitive/confidential information: For some professional users, it's necessary to wipe the data after some special work, like: client photos (especially weddings, portraits, events), unpublished commercial work, legal & government work, financial records once they are no longer needed on the card, intimate or personal photos that are not for public viewing.
• Before returning rented/borrowed camera: Just as with selling your own gear, you must return a rented camera in a pristine, erased state out of respect for the next user and to protect your own work.
• Erase data permanently to remove viruses: If the digital camera memory card was infected with virus, you may need to wipe the card data to remove the virus completely.

Best Software to Permamently Erase Data from Digital Camera on Mac

Some users may think the deleted files in the digital camera memory card is lost forever. Actually, it is not true. The deleted or lost data in the digital camera memory card still can be recovered by data recovery software, even you have formatted the camera memory card. If you want to permanently erase photos and videos from digital camera, you need special data erasure tool.

Donemax Data Eraser for Mac is a reliable and safe data erasure application. It supports to securely and permanently erase data from any type of hard drive or digital device. With advanced data erasure methods, it can permanently erase data from digital camera on Mac, leaving no trace for data recovery. Just download it here:

Donemax Data Eraser for Mac offers certified data erasure algorithms including HMG Infosec Standard 5 (1 pass), Peter Gutmann's algorithm 2 (2 passes), U.S. Army AR380-19 (3 passes), DoD 5220.22-M ECE (7 passes), Peter Gutmann's algorithm 35 (35 passes). The data could be 100% permanently erased.

This Mac data erasure software is 100% safe. It will not cause any damage to your digital camera or memory card. Before you sell, donate or give away your digital camera, you can use this software to help you quickly erase all your private data so that nobody can recover it. Donemax Data Eraser for Mac also can help you permanently erase data from Mac computer, HDD, SSD, USB flash drive, digital camcorder, RAID, Server, MP3, MP4, etc.

How to Permamently Erase Data from Digital Camera on Mac?

Download and install Donemax Data Eraser for Mac on your Mac, then connect the digital camera memory card to your Mac via a card reader. Open Donemax Data Eraser for Mac, you'll see three data erasure modes.

Mode 1. Permanently delete files from digital camera.

Erase Files/Folders mode is ale to help you permanently shred files and folders. Just select files/folders from digital camera and add to data erasure list. Click on Erase Now button and choose a data wiping algorithm to permanently erase the selected files/folders. This mode is useful if you only want to permanently remove specified photos/videos and preserve the other files on the digital camera.

Mode 2. Wipe all data in your digital camera.

Erase Hard Drive is able to help you permanently erase all data from a hard drive. Just select the digital camera memoyr card and click on Erase Now button. Select a data erasure method to permanently wipe the drive. All data on the digital camera/memory card will be permanently erased. It can be used if you will give or sell the digital camera to another personal.

Mode 3. Erase deleted data from digital camera.

This mode will help you permanently erase all deleted data in your digital camera. It will not affect the existing data inn your digital camera. If you have deleted some photos/videos from the camera and then you want to ensure the deleted files will not be recovered by others, you can use this method.

Conclusion

Due to some reasons, you may need to permanently erase data from digital camera on Mac. For example, it's necessary to remove some private information completely before you lend or return borrowed camera. It's an important way to protect your personal information safe.

Note that the wiped data is no longer recoverable after using the professional data erasure software. So, if there are important and needed files on the digital camera, remember to back up or transfer them to another safe place. Then you can try to wipe the data from the digital camera.

At last, to ensure the data on digital camera will be wiped permanently, you should choose the reliable data wiping tool. Donemax Data Eraser for Mac is recommended. The software can wipe data permanently with international data wiping algorithms. Should you need to shred files or wipe data in any case, you can use this software to help you.

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Donemax Data Eraser for Mac

100% safe and powerful Mac data erasure program. It offers certified data erasure standards including U.S. Army AR380-19, DoD 5220.22-M ECE to securely and permanently erase data from Mac HDD/SSD and external storage devices, making data recovery impossible.

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