Unfortunately I know too well what I did wrong and I was not following my normal backup procedure. RB had crashed and I accidentally saved over what I was working on instead of the normal procedure of saving under a new name. Not to mention that I had not saved an incremental copy with completed work for way too long. Being tired at the end of the day is no excuse for sheer stupidity and I own up to it completely.
I have tried installing two different unerase programs but can find no trace of the previous file. I will start over tomorrow. > > On Nov 24, 2006, at 4:35 PM, Terry Ford wrote: > > > > > On Nov 24, 2006, at 4:03 PM, Dixon, Tom wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I accidentally saved over an RB project with another RB project on > >> Windows XP and have lost about 16 hours worth of work in > the process. > >> Is there any way to recover the old file or was it completely > >> destroyed in the process of being saved over. > > > > > > It may be recoverable if you haven't saved anything else > since then. > > Most OSes simply write a new file and then free the blocks to be > > written over later. > > > > The problem you might encounter is, if you don't already > have a file > > recovery program already installed, you might wipe out the file by > > installing it. Norton's Utilities and others allow booting > and running > > from the install CD or DVD and then restoring your file. > Even running > > your email program could have already destroyed the file however. > > I would also like to add a comment about keeping a regimen of > individual backups. > > Sixteen hours of work really requires a conscientious effort > to backup frequently and as individual files. Simply saving > with the same name as an existing file will *not* allow you > the opportunity to return to a previous version when problems > are encountered. > > Disk space is cheap these days and unnecessary copies can be > deleted later when they are deemed no longer necessary to keep. > > An ounce of prevention is worth a pond of cure. > > Terry > > PS. I hope this teaches you a lesson _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
