Restore overwritten text file

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Hi,

I have a text file which I accidently delete the contents and save it.
Is there anyway to recover what I have overwritten? I was using notepad
when I overwrite my text file.

 

[Malke]

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Simon Kwek wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a text file which I accidently delete the contents and save it.
> Is there anyway to recover what I have overwritten? I was using
> notepad when I overwrite my text file.

If you saved over your text file - used the same name - then it is gone.
Notepad doesn't save a backup file so any data recovery software will
just find the saved-over file.

Malke
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Only through forensic data recovery. You send the drive to them and they
try to read the underlying magnetic fields from where the old data was
written. Read expensive. So the question is, how much is it worth?

Simon Kwek wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a text file which I accidently delete the contents and save it.
> Is there anyway to recover what I have overwritten? I was using notepad
> when I overwrite my text file.
>

 

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Notepad does not create BAK files. Your file is lost. The best thing you can
do is use your memory, and re-write the file.

If you have a memory problem, a hypnotist may be of some use for you.

--

JANA
_____


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Hi,

I have a text file which I accidently delete the contents and save it.
Is there anyway to recover what I have overwritten? I was using notepad
when I overwrite my text file.

 

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Simon Kwek wrote:
>
> I have a text file which I accidently delete the contents and save it.
> Is there anyway to recover what I have overwritten? I was using notepad
> when I overwrite my text file.

NO way








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In the "old days" 🙂 we would have probably saved some of it as the EOF
marker is placed at the end of the "text" so everthing past the "file"
EOF in the cluster can still be read. BUT you have to be able to read at
the sector/cluster level and with todays drives you are really going to
have tough going.

Plato wrote:

> Simon Kwek wrote:
>
>>I have a text file which I accidently delete the contents and save it.
>>Is there anyway to recover what I have overwritten? I was using notepad
>>when I overwrite my text file.
>
>
> NO way
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

 

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Simon Kwek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a text file which I accidently delete the contents and save it.
> Is there anyway to recover what I have overwritten? I was using notepad
> when I overwrite my text file.
>
You are screwed.

Either switch to Ultra Edit or start backing up your data more often.

--
Jon Dough

"The World's Lukiest Man"

 

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JANA, <jana@ca.inter.net>, the second-hand, throwaway degenerate, and
dishonest grocer and dealer in bad spices, purged:

> Notepad does not create BAK files. Your file is lost. The best thing
> you can do is use your memory, and re-write the file.
>
> If you have a memory problem, a hypnotist may be of some use for you.

You're a complete 'tard. Can a hypnotist help a janatard?

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in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived
it. There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which
are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely
impossible to adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul, alas
how rarely. Only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the
bodily and mental health are in perfection. And at those weird points
of time, where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of
dreams. And so I captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem,
is but a dream within a dream.

 

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dagdabrona@hotmail.com wrote:
> Well,
>
> Actually, your chaces are quite belak, still Active@ Undelete may help
> you. It has the most powerful recover methos, that may be able to save
> you. I myself has never failed in faith with it.
> http://www.active-undelete.com/
>
There is a slight problem with your logic since the OP did *NOT* delete
the file. He merely saved over an existing one, therefore, undelete
software will be relatively useless in this situation except to make one
of those software vendors rich.

--
Jon Dough

"The World's Lukiest Man" who is still looking for a DPMS AR-15 as his
new toy!

 

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Unfortunately you don't know what you are talking about, and would you
stop spamming that useless site.

dagdabrona@hotmail.com wrote:

> Well,
>
>