What’s P2 card?
P2 (P2 is a short form for “Professional Plug-In”) is a professional digital recording solid-state memory storage media format introduced by Panasonic in 2004, and especially tailored to electronic news-gathering (ENG) applications. It features tapeless (non-linear) recording of DV, DVCPRO, DVCPRO25, DVCPRO50, DVCPRO-HD, or AVC-Intra streams on a solid-state flash memory. P2 cards offers comparable recording capacity to tape-based media, and disc-based media, but with the added advantage of no moving parts. The P2 card is made up of a series of SD cards, depending on the capacity. Resistant to impact and vibration, shock, dust, and environmental extremes (including temperature changes), the P2 solid-state memory card can transfer data at high speeds without worry about its dependability.
How to recover P2 Card data deleted, formatted or lost on Mac?
• Accidental deletion
• Pressing the reformat button in camera
• Various reasons of damage like low battery power, turning off on writing/reading, etc.
• And so forth
You may have lost your vital photos, videos(.mxf) and audio files from a Panasonic P2 Card due to any reason above. As a matter of fact, the files are not completely erased from the P2 Card on the deletion or formatting. Only files names and properties are erased, the file content is still hanging around and recoverable. All you need is to get a P2 Card recovery Mac tool, which can help to retrieve all the contents. UFUSoft P2 Card Data Recovery for Mac (compatible with Mac OS X 10.12, 10.11, 10.10, 10.9 Mavericks, 10.8(Mountain Lion), 10.7, 10.6, or 10.5) is one of that. Before acting, keep in mind that less operation on the Panasonic P2 Card gives you higher chances to get lost files back.
Note: Remember that do not input any more photos and other files to the card, for the new data may overwrite your old data and decrease the chance to recover deleted pictures from P2 Card.
Step 1. Connect your Panasonic P2 Card to Mac
Connect your Panasonic P2 Card to the Mac through proper adapters or the device directly. Download the free trial version of Panasonic P2 Card recovery from its official site and install it on your Mac computer. Then connect the P2 Card to computer via a card reader.
Step 2. Select the P2 Card path for recovery
The program can detects all drives connected to the computer. On the drive list, select your P2 Card as target drive. Then click the “Start Scan” button to perform full scan of deleted photos on Panasonic P2 Card..
Step 3. Recover P2 Card on Mac
After the complete scan, all the files found back are well listed in the scan result panel. Check the folders of audio, video(.mxf) and photo on the left, and then hit “Recover” to get them all back. Remember to save them on your Mac or other storage devices, but not the same P2 Card from which you lost them before due to safety of the file.
Tip: Don’t save the recovered photos on your original P2 card again. Find another place for safety’s sake. If you are a Windows user, please try Panasonic P2 Card Data Recovery (compatible with Windows 10/8.1 blue/8/7/Vista/XP) here to do P2 data Recovery.
