thank you, the flowers and chocolate is a good start. I use windows xp, and i have logged out and in of the computer since. but not restarted it. i have norton antivirus on my computer but i guess it will not help me very much. Th printer is a hp psc 1214 all-in-one.. i have no cluw if it is postscript or what not, but when i open the file in notepad, it is the document, only with a LOT of other stuff.. a 10 page thing is 279 pages or something..
thank you for all help.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Chilco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 2:38 AM Subject: Re: [users] I saved a blank document over an importent one, can i get it back? please help, my wife will kill me. > Hi Hallgeir, > First step is to get lots of flowers and chocolate in case none of the > advice you get works. :-) > > What you can do depends on what operating system you have and what > you've done with the computer since you saved the blank file. When > saving, most programs rename the original file, save the current > contents using the original file name, then delete the original. When a > file is deleted, it is not removed from the hard drive, but its space is > no longer protected from being overwritten by other files. What this > means is that if you haven't written to the hard drive or shut down your > computer and rebooted, the original file, though deleted is still there. > Windows maintains a 'recycle bin' which holds deleted files. It's not > likely that the file will be found there unless you're using Norton > Utilities' protected recycle bin feature. You'll need an unerase > utility that is able to find a deleted file that's not in the recycle > bin and restore it. Norton has such a utility. There are many more out > there. Many have free trial versions that won't undelete the file, but > will allow you to find it. If it's still there, you can purchase the > utility and restore the file. It's important to keep in mind that you > must not write to the hard drive if you want to recover the file. > Download the utility on another computer and run it from a CD. > > As far as the print file goes, if the printer is postscript, you may be > able to recover the text from it. If it's a raster printer, the spool > file will contain only a stream of control characters. > tc > > > Hallgeir Gustavsen wrote: > > >i could really need som help here.. my wife had worked for a very long time om a document, and I saved over it, any chance of getting it back? > >i managed to get the file from c:/windows/system32/spool/printers/ > >so i got the file "printing-version" but can i convert it? > >please help.. id like to keep my wife... > > > >Hallgeir > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
