File overwriting Question

[Crow T Robot]

Is there anyway to recover a photo that was accidentally overwritten?

[J T]

Can you explain the overwriting procedure?

[Crow T Robot]

The short version is I had a group of files for example DSR1 - DSR200 on my memory card taken on say 01/01/2011 and another group of files DSR1 - DSR200 taken 11/11/2011 on my HDD uploaded the first group to the HDD and like a knob told windows to overwrite thinking they were the same files when in reality they were from different dates. Stopped the transfer in time but I did loose several files. Checked google but all the articles on this type of recovery I could find were 5+ years old. Just wondering if there is a recovery tool that could possibly work??

[Saturnalia]

Recycle Bin?

[conrailmike]

If it's truly overwritten then you're screwed. I'm not sure if a image/file recovery tool would work as they normally are just for something that's been deleted.

[Crow T Robot]

If it's truly overwritten then you're screwed. I'm not sure if a image/file recovery tool would work as they normally are just for something that's been deleted.

About what if figured just hoping there was something out there that might be able to recover the files OH WELL... Thanks ..

[~Z~]

If you are running Windows 7, a number of the versions have "shadow copy" turned on by default. On my system, I can browse through the folders and pull old copies of files out. Let's say I lost C:\users\~Z~\photo\cooltrain.jpg

I browse to C:\users\~Z~, then right click on the "photo" folder and hit properties. There's a tab called "previous versions" where I can then restore files that have been written over. Has came in handy a lot at work, but at home, I have a couple backups of my photos so I don't lose them.

[Crow T Robot]

If you are running Windows 7, a number of the versions have "shadow copy" turned on by default. On my system, I can browse through the folders and pull old copies of files out. Let's say I lost C:\users\~Z~\photo\cooltrain.jpg

I browse to C:\users\~Z~, then right click on the "photo" folder and hit properties. There's a tab called "previous versions" where I can then restore files that have been written over. Has came in handy a lot at work, but at home, I have a couple backups of my photos so I don't lose them.

I shall look into this tomorrow/today hopefully it is a solution??