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When a Mac user is going to sell or donate a digital camcorder to friends, strangers, the videos in the digital camcorder should be permanently erased to prevent potential data recovery. We know that Mac data recovery software or Windows data recovery software is able to easily and quickly recover lost data which is deleted or formatted from digital camcorder. For example, Do Your Data Recovery is able to quickly recover deleted, formatted or inaccessible data from a digital camcorder by 3 simple steps.

In order to sell digital camcorder without fear of privacy leakage, we should permanently shred videos, photos or other private data in the digital camcorder. In previous discussions, we have given the solution for permanently erasing data from digital camcorder on Windows PC. In this article, we will show an safe way to permanently erase data from digital camcorder on Mac.

how to permanently shred files from digital camcorder under Mac OS

Digital camcorder data erasure software for Mac

It is necessary to choose a data erasure software when we are going to erase digital camcorder data on Mac. We should consider two things when we pick up a data erasure software for Mac OS. First of all, the data erasure software should be capable of erasing data permanently - the erased data can’t be recovered by any data recovery software. The second, the data erasure software should be 100% safe. We want to the erased digital camcorder be usable after erasure. So, the data erasure software should not cause any physical/logical damage and should not affect the service life of the digital camcorder even the digital camcorder is completed erased.

DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac is able to meet the requirements perfectly. It offers certified data erasure standards to help Mac users easily, securely and permanently erase data from digital camcorder under Mac OS. Once the data in digital camcorder is erased by DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac, the data is lost forever, can’t be recovered by data recovery software. And it will not cause any damage. After erasure, we will get a brand new digital camcorder.

DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac is trusted by most of Mac users who want to erase sensitive permanently. It supports to permanently erase data from SSD, HDD, USB flash drive, digital camcorder, digital camera, memory card, etc. Just download it here:

Three options to permanently erase data from digital camcorder on Mac

Download and install DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac on Mac. Then connect the digital camcorder or memory card to our Mac via USB cable/card reader. Before we permanently shred data from digital camcorder, we’d better make a backup of the digital camcorder data. The easiest way to back up digital camcorder data is copying all important data from the digital camcorder and paste to our Mac or a secondary backup hard drive.

Then run DoYourData Super Eraser on the Mac computer, it will quickly recognize the digital camcorder. We can see three flexible options: Erase Files, Wipe Hard Drive, Wipe Free Space. We can choose a suitable option depending on the data erasure situation to help us permanently erase photos/videos from digital camcorder on our Mac.

Option 1. Permanently delete files from digital camcorder on Mac.

We can add files from digital camcorder to the erasure list. Then click on Erase Now button to permanently erase all the selected files from digital camcorder.

how to permanently shred files from digital camcorder under Mac OS

Option 2. Wipe all data from digital camcorder on Mac.

This option can help us wipe the digital camcorder/memory card. All existing data and deleted/history data on the digital camcorder will be permanently erased. It also will format the digital camcorder/memory card. It is recommended to use this mode to wipe all data before we sell, donate or dispose an old digital camcorder.

how to permanently shred files from digital camcorder under Mac OS

Option 3. Permanently erase deleted data from digital camcorder on Mac.

Wipe Free Space mode can help you permanently erase all deleted/lost data on the digital camcorder. It will not erase the existing data on the digital camcorder.

how to permanently shred files from digital camcorder under Mac OS

It is very easy to permanently erase data from digital camcorder with DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac. Before we sell or give away our digital camcorder, we’d better permanently erase our private videos or other files in the digital camcorder. DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac is easy-to-use, safe and powerful, so just download it for data erasure under Mac OS.

Fix corrupted digital camcorder memory card on Mac

If the digital camcorder memory card gets corrupted, DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac can help you fix the corrupted digital camcorder memory card. Choose Disk Manager, you can format the corrupted digital camcorder memory card to fix logical errors.

how to permanently shred files from digital camcorder under Mac OS

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Written & Updated by Shirly Chen

Shirly Chen has been writing data recovery, data erasure articles for DoYourData over 4 years. She has been working as a professional website content writer & editor for quite a long time. She also writes articles about disk clone, Mac optimization, disk backup, etc.

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