File overwriting Question
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File overwriting Question
Is there anyway to recover a photo that was accidentally overwritten?
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Re: File overwriting Question
Can you explain the overwriting procedure?
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Re: File overwriting Question
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??
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Re: File overwriting Question
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Re: File overwriting Question
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.
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Re: File overwriting Question
About what if figured just hoping there was something out there that might be able to recover the files OH WELL... Thanks ..conrailmike wrote: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.
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Re: File overwriting Question
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 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.
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Re: File overwriting Question
I shall look into this tomorrow/today hopefully it is a solution??~Z~ wrote: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.
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