File Recovery

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None, unless you backed up the original document. Sorry about that.

--
Ted Zieglar
"You can do it if you try."

"jodi" <jodi@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8929A3DB-E745-4944-87D5-002C59B1C0AC@microsoft.com...
> If I opened a document form a disc and accidently saved it over a document
on
> my desktop is there a way to recover the original document that was on the
> desktop before I saved over it?

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It may be possible using specialist software like GetDataBack (available
over the Internet). BUT you would have to pay (about £39) and it would only
work if the original file has not been overwritten.

Why are you saving files on the desktop. It would much better to save them
in a discrete folder.

Regards.

Bill Ridgeway
Computer Solutions

"jodi" <jodi@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8929A3DB-E745-4944-87D5-002C59B1C0AC@microsoft.com...
> If I opened a document form a disc and accidently saved it over a document
> on
> my desktop is there a way to recover the original document that was on the
> desktop before I saved over it?

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?)

I had the document on my desktop as a shortcut and I would just open it make
changes save and close it. My secretary saved somehting from her computer on
a disk put it on my computer and now all of my shortcut documents are erased
back to Feb. The only thing I can figure is the info on the disk was from
Feb. and there fore she said over my information on the shortcut. The changes
I had made to the shortcut and saved and closed is the information I am
trying to retrieve. Do you know if there is a way to do this?

"Bill Ridgeway" wrote:

> It may be possible using specialist software like GetDataBack (available
> over the Internet). BUT you would have to pay (about £39) and it would only
> work if the original file has not been overwritten.
>
> Why are you saving files on the desktop. It would much better to save them
> in a discrete folder.
>
> Regards.
>
> Bill Ridgeway
> Computer Solutions
>
> "jodi" <jodi@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:8929A3DB-E745-4944-87D5-002C59B1C0AC@microsoft.com...
> > If I opened a document form a disc and accidently saved it over a document
> > on
> > my desktop is there a way to recover the original document that was on the
> > desktop before I saved over it?
>
>
>