Over the years, Apple has made things easier for its users with a number of new and innovative utilities. iDisk is one of the wonderful invention by Apple for Mac users. Apple has provided iDisk, a standard subscription based file hosting service for all its Macintosh users, who use MobileMe. Furthermore, MobileMe is also a subscription based utility to provide Internet service to iOS, Mac OS X and Windows. With iDisk, you can easily store and remotely access digital pictures, songs, videos, movies, personal files etc. Moreover, you can integrate iDisk to the Mac OS X (from 10.3.9 to 10.6), which appears as a network drive on the desktop. However, sometimes, while accessing iDisk through Mac OS 10.4, iDisk gives error messages and thus, could not be mounted. This situation leads to the loss or inaccessibility of your valuable data and you need to opt for any Mac recovery utility to recover them back.

In the above situation, while trying to access your iDisk data through Mac OS X 10.4.11 or so, you may encounter the below error message which will restrict your access to the iDisk volume:

“The volume for iDisk cannot be found”

Following the above error message, while trying to access the iDisk volume through Finder, it fails to pop-up on the desktop. When you try access your personalized volume from the iDisk, it just do not do anything. However, when you try to access Other User's iDisk, after typing your user-name, password, you receive another error as below:

“Sorry, the operation could not be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -50).”

Cause:

There can be a number of possible issue behind the above erroneous situation ranging from any incompatibility issue, corruption to the file system which indeed conflicting with the synchronization to the iDisk, Virus or malware infection or any other software/hardware malfunction etc.

In such a case, Apple suggests to download and install the latest version of Mac OS X, however, sometimes, the error still persists and moreover, chances are there that you may also loose the unsynchronized iDisk data from your hard drive. Hence, it is safe to run any good Mac data recovery software to recover back the data.

Mac recovery software are meant to scan your drives and locate all your lost, deleted or inaccessible data in order to recover them back. Moreover, these utilities are very simple to use and with inbuilt detailed instructions, any person without much technical knowledge can be able to use it.

Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery is a wonderful Mac recovery utility in its category. The software is powerful enough recover your seemingly irrecoverable lost or inaccessible data from Mac OS X 10.3.9, 10.4.10.5 and 10.6. The software has complete compatibility with HFS, HFS plus, HFS Wrapper, FAT file systems and with an interactive GUI, quite easy to use.