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"Hello! I am trying to recover some deleted mkv videos from my Mac hard drive. However, I have emptied the trash bin. I am looking for a data recovery application to recover my mkv videos on Mac. Anyone can give me some suggestion and recommend an application to rescue my videos?" – Milman

recover mkv videos on Mac

MKV (.mkv) is a frequently used video format. When the MKV videos on Mac get deleted, they are lost permanently. The deleted or lost MKV videos are still on your Mac hard drive till the disk space of the MKV videos is overwritten by other data. Before the deleted MKV videos are completely destroyed, you have a good chance to get them back. But most Mac users don’t know how to recover deleted MKV videos on Mac. Fortunately, here is an easy solution can help you easily restore deleted or lost MKV videos from Mac hard drive or storage media device.

Freeware to recover deleted or lost MKV videos on Mac

Mac video recovery freeware is the best solution to recover deleted or lost MKV videos. Do Your Data Recovery for Mac Free is one of the best MKV video recovery freeware for Mac. Just free download it here and install it on your Mac.

This Mac MKV video recovery freeware is very easy-to-use. Even the most newbie can use it to easily recover deleted or lost MKV videos from Mac hard drive or storage media device. Here are the steps:

Step 1Step 1: Select file types to recover.

Do Your Data Recovery for Mac Free is a very powerful Mac data recovery application that can recover all kinds of files from Mac. If you only want to recover MKV videos, just select "Videos". Then move to the next step.

recover mkv videos on Mac

Step 2: Select the hard drive to scan.

Where you delete your MKV videos? Just select the hard drive where you lose your MKV videos to scan.

recover mkv videos on Mac

Step 3: Preview and recover MKV videos.

After scanning, you can preview and recover the MKV videos to your Mac.

recover mkv videos on Mac

Please note:

  • Do Your Data Recovery for Mac Free offers two recovery modes. If you can’t recover all lost MKV videos after quick scan, just try advanced recovery mode to recover more lost MKV videos.
  • Please don’t put new files to your hard drive before recovering all lost MKV videos on your Mac.
  • In a few cases, the file name of the lost MKV videos may be changed after loss. For example, from "Film2007.mkv" to "File2002". Just save all the mkv videos on your Mac and check them one by one.

Do Your Data Recovery for Mac Free offers easy solution to recover deleted, formatted, inaccessible MKV videos from Mac hard drive. If you want to recover MKV videos on Mac, you can run it to scan your Mac hard drive. It will find every recoverable MKV video on your Mac. It also supports to recover lost MKV videos from storage media device like memory card, SD card, digital recorder, external hard drive, USB flash drive, etc.

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Written & Updated by Henry Lee

Henry Lee joined DoYourData in 2022. He is interested in writing articles about fixing PC/Mac’s problems. He often shares tutorials and skills regarding information tech and enjoys helping people solve various data loss problems or hard drive crash problems. He likes reading and cooking very much when he is off work.

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