Stellar Data Recovery for Mac has 300+ file types that are introduced in the recovery engine by default, which makes it effective and efficient. These file types are segregated in various categories, as shown next:
- Photo, Audio, & Video formats: In this multimedia file format category, the software’s recovery engine supports 110 file types:
| 3GP Files | 3GP |
| AAC Files | AAC |
| AAC1 Files | AAC |
| AIFF Files | AIFF |
| AIFF Files (AFC) | AIFF |
| AU Files | AU |
| AVCHD Video File | MTS |
| Adobe EPS (Macintosh) | EPS |
| Adobe EPS (Windows) | EPS |
| Adobe InDesign | INDD |
| Adobe Photoshop | PSD |
| Animator Pro Flic File | FLC |
| Audio Video Interleave | AVI |
| AutoCAD | DWG |
| BMP Images | BMP |
| CD Audio Track | CDA |
| Canon (CR2) | CR2 |
| Canon (CRW) | CRW |
| Corel Draw Graphic | WP |
| Corel PhotoPaint | CPT |
| Corel RAVE Animation File | CLK |
| Corel Vector Graphic Drawing | CDR |
| DNG Files | DNG |
| DNG Files (Motorola) | DNG |
| DVM Movie | DVM |
| DeluxePaint Animation | ANM |
| Divx Encoded Movie File | DIVX |
| Enhanced Metafile Graphic | EMF |
| Epson | ERF |
| Freehand Ver11 Files | FH11 |
| Freehand Ver3 Files | FH3 |
| Freehand Ver5 Files | FH5 |
| Freehand Ver7 Files | FH7 |
| Freehand Ver8 Files | FH8 |
| Freehand Ver9 Files | FH9 |
| Fuji | RAF |
| GIF Images | GIF |
| GIMP Image File | PAT |
| GIMP Image File (XCF) | XCF |
| Intel Digital Video Interface | AVS |
| JPEG Images | JPEG, JPG |
| Kodak (DCR) | DCR |
| Kodak (K25) | K25 |
| Kodak (KDC) | KDC |
| Kodak Intel | KDC |
| M4A & M4P Files | M4A |
| M4V Files | M4V |
| MIDI Sound | MIDI |
| MOI Video File | MOI |
| MP3 (FF E3) | MP3 |
| MP3 Audio File (FF FA) | MP3 |
| MP3 Audio File Frame | MP3 |
| MP3 Audio Files | MP3 |
| MP3 Files (FFF2) | MP3 |
| MP3 Files (ID3 2) | MP3 |
| MP3 Files (ID3 4) | MP3 |
| MP4 Files | MP4 |
| MPEG Audio Data File | M3D |
| MPEG Files | MPEG |
| MPEG Files (B Header) | MPEG |
| MXF Movie Files | MXF |
| Mamiya | MOS |
| Mamiya (Intel) | MOS |
| Mamiya (MEF) | MEF |
| Matroska Vidoe File | MKV |
| MicroGrafx Designer 4 | DS4 |
| Micrographicx Graphic | DRW |
| Minolta | MRW |
| Multiple Image | MNG |
| NEOchrome Animation | ANI |
| Nikon (Intel) | NEF |
| Nikon (Motorola) | NEF |
| OGG Files | OGG |
| OGG Media Player | OGM |
| Olympus | ORF |
| PC Paintbrush | PCX |
| PNG Images | PNG |
| Paint Shop Pro Image File | PSP |
| Panasonic RAW | RAW |
| Pentax | PEF |
| Picture File | PCT |
| Portable Greymap File | PGM |
| Portable Pixmap File | PPM |
| Quick Time Movie | MOV |
| Quick Time Movie (mdat) | MOV |
| QuickTime Movie | QT |
| Real Audio | RA |
| Real Media | RM |
| Reason Song | RPS |
| Reason Song Bank | RFL |
| Reason Sound File | RNS |
| Screensaver | SCR |
| Sigma | X3F |
| Simple Animation | SMJPEG |
| Sony | ARW |
| Sony | SR2 |
| Sony (SRF) | SRF |
| Tiff Images (Intel) | TIFF, TIF |
| Tiff Images (Motorola) | TIFF, TIF |
| VectorWorks File (MCD) | MCD |
| VectorWorks File (VWX) | VWX |
| Video Object File | VOB |
| Visio Drawing | VSD |
| WAV Files | WAV |
| WMA Files | WMA |
| WMV & ASF Movies | WMV |
| Windows Animated Cursor | ANI |
| Windows Graphic Metafile | WMF |
| Windows Paint File | MSP |
| WordPerfect Graphic | WPG |
2. Document formats: This file format category supports all MS Office file types (DOCX, DOC, PPTX, PPT, XLS, XLSX, etc.) together with other 21 file types:
| Access Database | MDB |
| Access Database (ACCDB) | ACCDB |
| Adobe PDF | |
| Adobe Post Script | PS |
| Adobe Post Script1 Files | PS |
| Apple Works Document | CWK |
| Lotus 123 FMT File (FM3) | FM3 |
| Lotus 123 FMT File (FMT) | FMT |
| Lotus 123 WorkSheet1 | WK1 |
| Lotus 123 WorkSheet3 | WK3 |
| Lotus 123 WorkSheet4 | WK4 |
| MS Office 2008 Files | Office |
| MS Office Files | Office |
| OpenOffice Text Document | SDW |
| QXD Intel1 | QXD |
| QXD Motorola1 | QXD |
| QXP Intel | QXP |
| QXP Motorola1 | QXP |
| Quark EPS Files | EPS |
| Quick Books | QBB |
| QuickBooks Primary Data File | QBW |
| Word Perfect Document | WPD |
3. Archive formats: For archive format category, the software supports 12 file types:
| 7 Zip Archive | 7Z |
| ARJ Archive | ARJ |
| BZ2 Compressed Tar | BZ2 |
| Binhex Archive | HQX |
| LZA Animation | LZA |
| Microsoft Cabinet | CAB |
| RAR Files | RAR |
| Redhat Linux Archive | RPM |
| Stuffit (SIT) | SIT |
| Stuffit X | SITX |
| Tape Archive | TAR |
| Zip Archive | ZIP |
4. Application formats: This file format category supports 30 file types:
| AOL Web Email | DCI |
| Adobe Illustrator (AI) | AI |
| Adobe Illustrator Ver 9 or later | AI |
| Adobe Indesign Template | INDT |
| Apple Mail | EMLX |
| Apple Mail (Sent and Draft) | EMLX |
| Apple Scripts | SCPT |
| C Source Code | C |
| Coral Presentation Files | SHW |
| Encore Files | ENC |
| Entourage Mail | |
| FLASH | FLA |
| File Maker Ver3 | FP3 |
| File Maker Ver5 | FP5 |
| File Maker Ver7 | FP7 |
| Finale Software Files | MUS |
| Generic Email Message | EML |
| HTML Files1 | HTML |
| Lotus Notes Data File | NTF |
| Lotus Notes Files | NSF |
| MS Outlook Data File | PST |
| Macromedia Flash (CWS) | SWF |
| Macromedia Flash (FLV) | SWF |
| Macromedia Flash (FWS) | SWF |
| Outlook Express Mailbox | DBX |
| Pagemaker Files | PMD |
| Pro Tools Files | PTF |
| iCalendar | ICS |
| iPhoto | IPHOTO |
| iTunes Library | PLIST |
5. Text & other formats: This assorted file format category supports 16 file types:
| Archived HTML (MHT) | MHT |
| Archived HTML (MHTML) | MHTML |
| Compiled HTML Help File | CHM |
| Database File | DBF |
| EnCase Case or Backup File (CAS) | CAS |
| EnCase Case or Backup File (CBK) | CBK |
| Java Server Pages | JSP |
| Mathematica Player | NBP |
| Microsoft Active Server Pages | ASPX |
| Personal Home Page | PHP |
| Quicken Data File (ABD) | ABD |
| Quicken Data File (QDF) | QDF |
| Quicken Data File (QSD) | QSD |
| RTF Files | RTF |
| Turbo Tax | TAX |
| Windows Help File | HLP |
In case you don’t see the file type that you are interested to recover, use the software’s ‘Add File Type’ feature. This functionality allows you to add custom file type in the recovery engine. You can add as many file types as you require and recover those files by using the software. To add custom file type, watch the below video tutorial:
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