tried to save a document over another of the same name, only open.

[Guest]

youll never believe what happened so i wrote this lab report titled
cellreport2, saved it over the old cellreport2 i had written and now my comp
is only showing the first one which is only like a paragraph not 6
pages!!!!!!!!!! what do i do??????

 

[Graham Mayor]

If you have Word set to always save a backup copy, you *may* be able to
recover your missing text from the backup. If not you *may* be able to
recover some or all of it with file recovery software such as File Recovery
or Easy Recovery Professional. If not you will have learned an expensive
lesson.

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[Bill Foley]

It can't just run away! Are you sure you saved it to the exact folder
overwriting the previous version? You can easily check by doing a few
things. They may seem rather simple, but it is worth a check:

1. Open Word, click the "File" menu. Are both files listed at the bottom of
the dropdown?

2. Click "Start", highlight "Documents". Are both listed here?

If either 1 or 2 are YES, then you saved it elsewhere. If no, try #3.

3. Close Word. Press and hold the "Flying Window" key on your keyboard and
press "E". Release both. You have just opened Windows Explorer. Click the
"Search" button (depending on the version of Windows you have, you might
need to click "Tools", "Find", "Files and Folders"). Search for all file
types, but type in "cellreport" in the name box (obviously without the
quotes). Click "Search Now" (of Find now).

Does it find the file(s)? Click the "View" menu and select "Details". This
will tell you where the file is located, the date, file size, etc.

Hopefully one of the above will work. If not, holler back, but you might
want to check your computer for gremlins because this really can't happen,
except by accident!

 

[Guest]

If you do a save as and use the name of an existing file, Word will
overwrite that file with your new information. However, it gives you a
message asking if you really want to replace the file. Did you say yes to
that message? If so, your file is gone for good.

Genine

 

[Graham Mayor]

Actually it only overwrites the file allocation table entry to point to the
newly saved version. The disc space that contains the data *may* not have
been overwritten - yet - so it *may* still be possible to recover it.

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