[jindrich]

I cannot believe it! how stupid can i be?

i was working on a web project with the very idiot and broken (on macs) dreamweaver mx, and stupidly renamed a new empty file with the name of an existing one. Now the hard work contained on that one is gone, overwriten with nothing!

i dont care for the html, css, etc, but for the contents. That's around 2 pages of very creative text that took me 40 hours to write. There's no way i can write that again.

I've tried to recover the files, bu no success at all.
I had no utilities for that. Have downloaded Data Rescue X and data recicler X demos. Data rescue only "recovers" what is already on your HD ?? , and data recicler only looks for some deleted files on your trash.


WAHT CAN I DO? is norton better? I only need to recover 1 file. Do i have to pay for Norton? any other app?

Is there any hope, when i didn't delete the file, but it was overwritten by RENAMING another?

PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE HELP!
TIA

[TETENAL]

I don't believe it was overwritten by renaming another. It was probably overwritten because you saved another one over it with the same name.

If the data has actually been overwritten (quite possible in your case - at least partially with the contents of the other document) then I think you need a professional data recovery service.

If you have 40 hours of hard work that can not be recreated, it's advisable to create a backup. At least make a copy on a USB key-drive. That's universally utilisable for that.

[jindrich]

danke, aber ich wusste es schon, das man muss doch immer eine Sicherungskopie machen :-P

problem is i forgot to do it. finished at 6 in the mornig and didint sleep much. today went to the computer half sleep and did something stupid.

yes i saved an empty file with the same name.

why is this SO EASY TO DO?

is there no way to recover that? can you get into the inners of the drive looking for older versions of your files?

i though when you save files to the HD, dont get overwritten until thee'res no space left.


damn.

edit: now that you mention, i didnt think about using one of my canons20D compact flash cards for an easy and fast backup (at 6am). But tody i used one as a "destiantion drive" while sacnning my powerbook 80GB HD looking for such mentioned file.

if only i had sent the file to self by email, that would have been enough! (a backup copy in mail)

[analogika]

Originally posted by jindrich:
danke, aber ich wusste schon es, das man muss doch immer eine sicherung machen :-P

problem is i forgot to do it. finished at 6 in the mornig and didint sleep much. today went to the computer half sleep and did something stupid.

yes i saved an empty file with the same name.

why is this SO EASY TO DO?.

"Are you sure you want to replace the older file 'Thisis40hoursofyourlifedownthedrain.project'?"

Welp.

[jindrich]

yeah im a loser baby, so why dont you kill me.

im looking for help!

i managed to write back about 30-40 percent from memory, but not with the exactly the same brilliant words i got on the first instance (it was a marketing project, adressed to final consumers).

cant remember more.

[cpac]

Originally posted by jindrich:
im looking for help!

aside from a professional data recovery service, there probably is none for this sort of problem.