[Hidden-tech] ways to retrieve replaced files?

[Tom Gajda]

Hi Amy,

Try searching the hard drive using the file name or parts of the file name.
You may find a temporary file hanging out somewhere.

In addition, turn on the Windows option to see hidden files and look for a
temporary file in the directory where the original file is located or in any
temporary directories you can find by searching the hard drive. Temporary
files often do not have file names that match the original file. You might
even try searching for a unique text string in all files on your hard drive.
That could take several hours. Start it before going to sleep. 

Several times a day, I rename the file I am working on with a sequential
suffix: 001, then 002, then 003.

That way if I corrupt the file or overwrite it or somehow lose it, I have
never lost more than a couple of hours worth of work. Since I do not delete
these versions until the project is complete, I am able to go back and
recover older text that I might have deleted thinking it was junk. You will
discover several advantages to this sequential numbering process if you try
it.

Every day, week, or every few months (depending upon importance of the
documents I am working on), I copy documents or entire directories to
another computer on my network.

Every now and then, but not often enough, I copy important stuff to a CD and
give it to my sister for off-site storage in case the whole house burns
down.

Regards,

Tom Gajda 


Tom Gajda
Thomas Paul Communications
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Cell: 413-297-2246
Office:413-547-8936
 
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Hi all,

My daughter hit "replace" by accident and obliterated her first novella. It 
was about 80 pages double-spaced.

I took it to ACI in Amherst and they couldn't locate it with a scan even 
though we had backed this up every five minutes or more within an hour 
during an editing session.

Does anyone know if there are services that can take content off of a hard 
drive?

If so, do you know the cost?

Will the procedure destroy the hard drive?

thanks!

Amy Zuckerman
Hidden-Tech Founder, Co-Chair


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