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I overwrote a file...:S
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Join Date: Sep 2007
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Hey guys.. I dunno if I'm in the correct part of the Forum to post this.
I overwrote a file with a version I don't want. Is there any way for me getting the old version of the file back??
Thanks in advanced!
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Dec 2000
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Did you back up the old file first?
If not, your only option is to try DriveSavers. It'll cost you a few thousand bucks, though.
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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If you're running Leopard with Time Machine enabled you're in luck. Just open it up, scroll back to a timeframe before you made the changes you don't want, navigate to the file and restore it.
If not...... what CharlesS said - never used DriveSavers, though.
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Nope, no Leopard here... Isn't there a low-cost solution?
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Posting Junkie
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If you actually overwrote it, all the low-cost solutions are screwed.
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It's a Photoshop Document... I accidentally merged all the layers and saved it.. I would want to have my 50+ layers back.... I just noticed this today, I think the merging ocurred a couple of days back.
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Join Date: May 2001
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No chance that you can recover the file if you overwrote it, not without a backup.
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Ok... thank you all, anyways
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I must be lucky... I found a backup I had made on another folder of the file I overwrote..
Long Live the Mac
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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So now that you dodged that bullet... perhaps time to think about some sort of backup plan?
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Join Date: Sep 2007
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I've always wanted to have a file server, but money is currently an issue. Also, my MacBook doesn't have a DVD drive, so writing my files on a DVD is complicated. I could burn the 5gb that my school folder has into spanned CDs... would it be worth it?
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Dude.
Walk into the nearest electronics store, and buy the cheapest ****ing USB hard drive they have.
And if you don't have 10.5 wth its Time Machine backup system, download the free SilverKeeper backup software from LaCie .
Sheesh.
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I really have no money to get an external hard drive, otherwise I would have gotten one by now, don't you think?
I dunno why you got so upset with me :S
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Backups make little sense unless they're regularly done.
And $70 will get you an external USB hard drive.
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I'm only 16 and live in a third-world country. $70 dollars is what you pay in the US; all the stores here have electronics overpriced. I'll see how I manage to get an external USB drive.
Thanks for your concern though.
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Thank you, I just created an account. What happens if I get disconnected and the backup is running? Here the electricity is unstable and leaves every once in a while. Every time there's a change from the city's electricity to my house's backup power source, I get disconnected.
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