I was working with a document, transferring it from Word to Libre office. When it asked if I wanted to save as an ODT document, over the document that already existed with that name, I thought I was just replacing the Word document with the ODT.
But in another folder, there was a document with the same name, and it saved over THAT one. Is there any way I can recover the document from the other folder that I did not mean to erase??
Although the links removed from the answers were spam, the point is valid that @Krunal1 now is engaged in a forensics operation of trying to recover an overwritten file from the disk if the backup was not enabled. I have used GPL 2+ applications TestDisk and PhotoRec for forensic recovery, both presently openly available online and (apparently) still being developed. Recovery of such data is hardly assured; often better to immediately recreate.
Otherwise it is necessary to try only this way:
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Because of that continues crash, I installed/uninstalled VScode 2-3 times, even installed VS-insiders BUT I saved the PREVIOUS data files like .vscode folder in C:\Users\User or Code folder under C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Code directory, for all previous VScode installations (All are for today).
Previous versions are either copies of files and folders created by Windows Backup or copies of files and folders that Windows automatically saves as part of a restore point. You can use previous versions to restore files and folders that you accidentally modified or deleted, or that were damaged.
NTFS is a journaling file system, meaning it's one that can track changes in files. That got turned on in Win7. Consistent with that being the start of the journaling, I found that it had snapshots of files I'd changed going back to my installation of Win7 but not of files that were older.
A file recover utility did the trick for me in a similar situation. Recuva has very good reviews and actually was able to recover several older versions of a power-point presentation I had inadvertently overwritten.
Free continuous backup software like DeltaCopy would allow you to pull the previous versions out of the backup destination, and that's a good thing to implement once you have recovered the desired version of your file.
Windows has written and replaced 3,600+ files so far today in six hours of use on my PC, and probably thousands on yours; it is very disk-intensive. Therefore, please abstain from using your PC for anything until you do these recovery steps.
a) Download the Testdisk software file for your OS.
b) Extract its files to a directory on a drive (an external USB attached drive is recommended) which was NOT used to save the desired Word file.
c) Read the README file.
d) Launch Photorec.
e) Specify recovery from the source drive where the file was.
f) Specify recovery to a destination drive (so it is not overwriting any clusters which might contain your data).
g) Start the recovery scan.
h) When scan completes, open the destination directory. A file name will have been randomly assigned by Photorec but the extension will match what you're looking for.
i) Open each of the recovered Word files which match the size (plus/minus 5%) of the file in question. Check to see what they contain. Delete them if not what you want.
Office (tested with Office 365 V1909) saves files for Word, Excel etc. in a similar way creating various temporary files. Instead of modifying the original file it creates a new file and renames and deletes the old one containing the old version.
You can recovering those deleted temporary files, you can recover the old version, using a file recovery software like Recuva. The last version of the last saved file is usually called somthing like WRL0001.tmp (the meta information like date etc. will be still intact). Older versions and last versions from files saved before the last one will also have temp files that can be recoverd, but they won't contain the meta data any more, but they will keep their fileextention. When you recover those files the recovery software will usually assign a number, so it might look like this [000001].docx.
IMPORTANT: make sure not to use the drive where the word file is stored until you are finished with recovering your deleted files. Space occupied by deleted files will be overwritten sooner or later when new data is saved on that drive.
I opened an Excel spreadsheet from the team files area in the browser, edited it and saved it back in the files area of a team channel. I made mistakes in the editing. Now, I can't just use "undo" because the file has already been saved. Is there a way to revert to the previous version of the file?
Is anyone actively working on Show all versions of a file in the recovery tree? I started working on it quite a while ago, made some really good progress, and then had to drop it. If no one is working on it I would like to finish it.
Those handful of times we did recover files in CrashPlan, the only thing of notice was just how slow and bloated it was. If you wanted to restore several revisions to find where a specific change happened, you would spend a lot of time restoring each revision separately, and would have to wait quite some time in-between. Not very nice.
If there was slowdown - it was related to the number of files in a folder. In my case I had maybe more than 23000 files in a folder (this is not unique as these are pictures - I am a photographer - my hobby).
The restore was not too fast (regardless if there were deleted files or not) because it took a while to prepare the restore - normally a zip file (if I am not mistaken). Once the zip is created however - it is up to the network.
But instead of discarding older versions files entirely, Box keeps track of them, and you can refer or revert to a prior version of a file at any time. And you can preview older versions almost instantly, without the delay of downloading them and then opening them in an online editor. This is especially useful when you want to:
I'm having all kinds of problems lately with two different (SanDisk) SD cards. I shoot photos in .RAW and then put the card in my PC's card reader and up until recently never had a problem. Now Windows gives me a message that I need to format the card before I can use it. Not doing that (yet) as I'm hoping to recover my day's photoshoot and I'm not sure if formatting will make that impossible or much more difficult.
I'm a CCleaner user and came across Recuva. Since this is the first time I've ever had to recover data I downloaded the free version. None of any video or text turorials I've come across show the same UI. Maybe those are for the paid version?
First problem using Recuva: I select the drive to scan, select "Pictures" in the third field ("All Files" is not shown as an option like in the tutorials), click the arrow for the second field (Scan) and am given two options. First option is 'Scan Files.' When selected I get the "Failed to sacn the following drives J:: Unable to determine file system type." Second option is 'Scan Contents.' When selected I can not continue without entering a Search String. Checked around online and I'm guessing I need to put in the type of file I'm looking to recover - in my case *.raw* That's how I entered it, with the asterisk at front and back. I get the same "...Unable to determine file system type" message I get with the first option.
It is possible that reformatting the media, then setting Scan for non-deleted files in Options > Actions might allow the data to be recovered in Recuva - the process has a fairly high chance of destroying some or all of it, however, particularly on Flash-based media. Otherwise, Recuva will not be able to be used in this case.
That sinking feeling when you realize you saved over a version of a file you need or unwittingly lost some vital information in a recent document revision is all too familiar to many. In the past, your best bet was a reconstruction from memory, but the rise of cloud services and automatic backups has made it easier than ever to recover an earlier version of the files you need.
I have just met a problem with many files (gigabytes) somehow got zero length on server (during sync process - I was truing to make a backup copy on removable HDD drive connected to local computer) and after that some local copies were partially corrupted too during back sync. Luckily I can see zeroed files in their places on server and they also have non-zero version in version history, so I (I hope) can restore each one of them via web interface.
My web interface did show about 302Gb used space (in low left corner) in the morning and now it shows 298Gb - after the zeroing process (I have put it on pause) (the whole disk is about 1Tb). I have read about versioning policy, I have enough free space, so I hope the versions were not deleted (as I checked random files - they are on the place). But I am a bit worried by this reduction of displayed occupied space - does it show occupied space without space taken by version history of files?
We did find the old versioned files in /opt/nextcloud/data/user/files_versions/ but available documentation is not at all clear on how you could restore them. Sure you could move them back to their original locations and run occ files:scan but given this happened in a production server we were unwilling to see what happened. We also ended up restoring from backup.
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