Please help! :(

misstearheus

Is there any way I can get a File back to its most recent state before last save?! Like I dunno can I corrupt it or something and when I turn off and on the Pooter it'll magically be back to its second-last action where I want it before I stupidly made a Booboo in saving and lost all the additions and everything....

Corvo Attano

You can try this OP:
https://superuser.com/questions/515906/is-there-any-way-to-restore-recover-the-previous-version-of-a-file-that-was-save

Unless the additions were saved and then lost on a save again I dont see how they would have been saved. I wouldnt hold out much hope im afraid. What type of file was this?

endacl

misstearheus wrote: »

Pooter Booboo

I suspect not....

:P

misstearheus

A Database. All the additions would have been saved yeah. 2 Files of the same name. :rolleyes::rolleyes: I know I know stupid! Like, I had all the additions done. I'm doing it in an Application and I opened the App which opened up a File of the same name before any additions carried out. Aaaand I went into my own File then, with ALL of the additions, and I messed up the saving part. Do I want to replace file of the same name, I said yes. But what I wanted was to save mine with all the additions but I presume what it saved was the other before-additions one, which I guess means mine, is, Toast!

diomed

See if there is a file of the same name in the directory, but with a different file extension e.g. names and names.bak.
If there is you can recover.

My guess is you would deliberately have to copy a file over an existing file of the same name. If you were changing a file using the database software it might have a copy.

misstearheus

Nothing in the File Properties Previous Versions. Funduc's Search and Replace Utility and Recuva didn't work.


What do I do in the Directory? I don't know what to do with it...

diomed

Here is an example I created a few minutes ago.

I had a database file called "names" in a folder "wednesday" on the F: drive
F:\wednesday\names.dbf

I changed the file structure.
The software made a copy of the original file named names.bak.

The names.bak contains the data of the original file before I made the changes.

Go to the folder where you keep the database and look for something like that .... another file with the same name but a different extension (in this case .bak)

bonzodog2

Try previous versions in the folder properties