Last night I was working on a home page in MS Front Page. I had saved the file, and had spent a lot of time on the text. When I shut the program down, I was asked if I wanted to save the file, which puzzled me somewhat, but I said OK...and it turns out that all my text that I had added to the original file has vanished. I assume that there must have been two versions of the html file, and when I clicked OK it overwrote the intended file. Is there any possible way I can recover that file without using a data recovery service? If not, I can rewrite it, but I spent so much time composing and editing it that I hate to lose all that work.
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ANY HELP FOR OVERWRITTEN FILE in XP?
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Thanks...but I'm afraid that didn't help. No files turned up. I'm sure the data is still on the hard drive. The file that overwrote it had the same identical text at the top, it is just the 200+ words that I added at the bottom of the home page that I need to retrieve, if at all possible.
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Yes, I checked the Recycle Bin, but of course it was not there, as I had not deleted the file, I accidentaly overwrote it with an earlier version of the same file. Would System Restore also restore data? I thought that was just for corrupted Windows system files ???
System restore will not help you in this circumstance. There is a carefully circumscribed set of file extensions that are monitored by System Restore.
The file may still be in the Recycle Bin, but not under its final name.
Start a Front page session and type a single line and Save it. Use tools to monitor the temporary and backup files created during the process: FileMon (freeware):
The file may still be in the Recycle Bin, but not under its final name.
Start a Front page session and type a single line and Save it. Use tools to monitor the temporary and backup files created during the process: FileMon (freeware):
ok, i use goback and with goback i can get that file back. I figured system restore would do that too, guess not.
Goback cant help you right now but get yourself a copy of the prog and it will help you in the future.
YOu can find it on sale or greatly reduced sometimes plus it comes with norton system works as well, i dont know if norton has full version of goback but prolly does.
Goback cant help you right now but get yourself a copy of the prog and it will help you in the future.
YOu can find it on sale or greatly reduced sometimes plus it comes with norton system works as well, i dont know if norton has full version of goback but prolly does.
You might want to try looking in the FrontPageTempDir although these files are not kept forever...
the *.tmp files might contain the HTML code of your page, but you will have to search their contents
C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Temp\FrontPageTempDir
Where USERNAME is your user name i.e. John Doe
Open the *.tmp files with frontPage and save them as .htm files.
I certainly don't guarantee your file will be there but it might be worth a shot!
Good Luck!
Dan Hollenbach
the *.tmp files might contain the HTML code of your page, but you will have to search their contents
C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Temp\FrontPageTempDir
Where USERNAME is your user name i.e. John Doe
Open the *.tmp files with frontPage and save them as .htm files.
I certainly don't guarantee your file will be there but it might be worth a shot!
Good Luck!
Dan Hollenbach
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Thank you ALL for your help. Unfortunately, I was not able to recover my overwritten file. It was a lesson hard-learned. Now, I'll just have to start over again rewriting the copy.
XP sure is different from Win 98 SE.....I think I could have recovered it if I still were using my old OS.
I couldn't find hardly any .tmp files at all and the only Front Page temp files I could find were two initial home page start-up files created about 5 hours earlier.
XP sure is different from Win 98 SE.....I think I could have recovered it if I still were using my old OS.
I couldn't find hardly any .tmp files at all and the only Front Page temp files I could find were two initial home page start-up files created about 5 hours earlier.
Install Norton Antivirus or similar third-party packages that have fairly aggressive file protections built into the software.
If it becomes a serious issue, consider even GoBack, as it can revert to multiple points in time. It is a drain on system resources, but bearable with a modern machine. System Restore will not help you in this instance.
If it becomes a serious issue, consider even GoBack, as it can revert to multiple points in time. It is a drain on system resources, but bearable with a modern machine. System Restore will not help you in this instance.
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