Yoda,
Use the force... the file is within you. :-)
The file that was overwritten may still exist on the hard drive. It
won't be in the recycle bin, though. When a file is deleted, it's entry
is removed from the file allocation table and protection for the sectors
it occupies is removed. The recycle bin preserves that data until the
object is removed from the bin. There are 'unerase' utilities that may
be able to recover the file for you. The important thing is that you
must not write to the hard drive. If you have another pc available to
find and download the utility, burn it onto a cd and run it from that
cd. Of course the best way is to just copy the file from you backup cd.
yoda wrote:
I am using version 2.0 of OpenOffice.org.
My problem is : I was using an Open Office.org spreadsheet to run some
quick calculations. When i was done, i decided to save it, but
accidentally saved it over an important file, thus wiping out the
important file.
A deleted file is put somewhere where i can restore it, is there some
similar process whereby "save as" puts the old file, now written over,
somewhere where i can go and restore it?
Do OpenOffice.org products save older versions of files in some way
that i can retrieve an earlier version of a file when the "save as"
command is used?
I would be happy to lose the new file, which is only scratch
calculations, to get the old file back. I found nothing on this issue
in the normal help files. Any help would be most appreciated.
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