is there an easy way to...
$Zero
retrieve a previously saved version of a file?
windows vista.
twenty minutes ago.
fuck.
...
item: one very large, unbacked-up, notepad file.
did a "save as" and entered a new name.
wiped out existing text and wrote something new.
closed file.
looked on taskbar and the original name was still there.
huh?
checked it out and the large file was replaced with the new small one.
WTF.
anyway, anyone got any good news in this regard?
it's never come up before, so i'm clueless.
-$Zero...
there's no market for...
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/20aefda0858199ff
Bill Penrose
There's an 'undelete' function, tho' I haven't used it for awhile.
'Delete' turns the first character of a filename to a question mark.
This signalss that the space is available to be overwritten when the
operating system, in its wisdom, decides. If you overwrite a file, I'm
not sure whether it creates a new copy and deletes the old one, or
simply overwrites the old one and destroys it.
DB
$Zero
> On Dec 14, 3:43 pm, "$Zero" <zeroi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > is there an easy way to...
>
> > retrieve a previously saved version of a file?
>
> > windows vista.
>
> > twenty minutes ago.
>
> > fuck.
>
> > ...
>
> > item: one very large, unbacked-up, notepad file.
>
> > did a "save as" and entered a new name.
>
> > wiped out existing text and wrote something new.
>
> > closed file.
>
> > looked on taskbar and the original name was still there.
>
> > huh?
>
> > checked it out and the large file was replaced with the new small one.
>
> > WTF.
>
> > anyway, anyone got any good news in this regard?
>
> > it's never come up before, so i'm clueless.
>
> > -$Zero...
>
> > there's no market for...
> > http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/20aefda0858199ff
>
> > http://itsazenthinger.com
>
> There's an 'undelete' function, tho' I haven't used it for awhile.
>
> 'Delete' turns the first character of a filename to a question mark.
yeah, i remember using that back in the DOS days.
but now you just go to the recycle bin to undelete.
(unless you purposely used "shift-delete" to bybpass the recycle bin)
> This signalss that the space is available to be overwritten when the
> operating system, in its wisdom, decides. If you overwrite a file, I'm
> not sure whether it creates a new copy and deletes the old one, or
> simply overwrites the old one and destroys it.
i'm sure it's still there somewhere, in some form.
and with a multi gazillion byte hard drive it's probably safe from
getting plowed over by the OS for awhile, theoretically, anyway.
but how to get at it is the problem.
as expected, Windows Help was no help.
-$Zero...
$100 has a time value. nothing more.
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/473c4f3083434846