- Can I recover old version of file after Copy & Replace?
- Posted by shaunda on December 17th, 2007
I was backing up my Word2007 files to a USB memory stick, and I accidently
copied the old file versions from the USB stick to the computer, rather than
the other way around, so the old versions of these files replaced the newer
versions. Of course I received the warning about how doing so would
"replace" the files with the same names already on the computer, and I
authorized it, not yet having realized what I had done. Can I recover the
prior versions of those Word files? I assume they are still on the C: drive
somewhere; that the version I don't want was copied to separately to that
drive, using the same file name. I tried Undelete-Plus but it did not find
the old files.
- Posted by sgopus on December 17th, 2007
nope.
That's why it's always a good idea to make multiple backups.
if you overwrote the newer files, then that data is gone.
"shaunda" wrote:
- Posted by AJR on December 17th, 2007
Review "Previous versions of files" under Help.
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- Posted by Shenan Stanley on December 17th, 2007
shaunda wrote:
I am unsure why you are assuming the old version of the files are somewhere
on your C:\ drive.
You may want to purchase Undelete and have it running in the background to
help you out in the future. ;-)
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- Posted by Xandros on December 17th, 2007
I suppose there is a possibility that the files are still stored in the temp
folder. Check here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827099/en-us
I wouldn't get my hopes up too high though.
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- Posted by Xandros on December 17th, 2007
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Shenan if the files where originally saved on C then remnants will still be
there. Serious undelete software might recover them.
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- Posted by philo on December 17th, 2007
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Sorry.I gave an answer only for Vista...not XP
- Posted by Bruce Chambers on December 18th, 2007
shaunda wrote:
Not unless you had them backed up somewhere else; they've been overwritten.
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