Help! Can I recover my file???
Oh my God! I am such an idiot! I accidently SAVED OVER one of my articles. It is absolutely tragic... I am in an absolute fit!!
Is there any, and I mean ANY, way of recovering a file once it has been saved over by another file??? Maybe the computer has history files or something I can hack into? I use MAC OS X.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE HELP!!!
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
- Albert Einstein
openmind posted this at 21:32 — 6th November 2004.
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I don't think the Mac has a rollback feature like windows does it?
sumeiko posted this at 22:35 — 6th November 2004.
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Never mind, everyone! Somehow, I managed to fix it myself. I had a similar file in the same folder with a different extension. I think i must have saved over the image file with the text file, keeping the image extension. It's absolute luck that I saved over the image file, because I also saved over the original text file with a different article. When I opened the file, it was the wrong article. Mac computers are good for changing extensions, as they let you change your files to almost anything!
When I opened the "Image file" (It had a word logo), it opened in AppleWorks and was all weird looking. When I changed the file to .rtf, my article was back and looking normal!
It was certainly an experience, and I will definately back up my files from now on!
Thanks for your concern openmind. No, I don't think Macs do have that feature.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
- Albert Einstein
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 00:50 — 7th November 2004.
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hehe
What I used to do on Linux is allow my editors to create ghost copies for whatever I'm doing, which creates a lot of clutter -- ~files, DEADJOE, files.ext.bak and so on, which was my initial reasoning for not having auto backups. But I'd also have a cron job recursively clean up my home directory once a day, or whenever I'd finished working on the project.
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