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Ujin

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Apr 24, 2018
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I accidentally erased my macbook air from the app "find my phone" on I phone. Then it erased everything that I had.
And then I had this screen called Disk utilities and there was this option "resinstall mac os". I did and now everything seems gone. I have photos, files and 3 years of every memory of mine and they seem to be gone.
I don't know what to do. I used to have this drive called "macintosh" and everything was on it and now I dont have it. I am basically cryin and don't know what to do.
I installed some data recovery apps and none of them can't find my old drive. What should I do? Can somebody help me?
 
Remotely erasing the Macbook is usually done when the Macbook has been lost or stolen. The remote erase function is a security feature for Apple products and the erase process is done in such a way as to prevent easy recovery of the deleted files.
 
You need to take it to a professional data recovery service.
[doublepost=1524585999][/doublepost]The reason you can't 'find' the old drive is because it's been wiped. Data recovery is possible on a wiped drive, but the most important thing to do is stop using your Mac. As you use it, your old data is being overwritten.
 
Lesson learned. Get an external drive and backup your information periodically (TimeMachine, Carbon Copy Cloner, SuperDuper!).
 
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