Help....Anyone know how to retreive a file...

[Ajbathija]

Help....Anyone know how to retreive a file that I have copied a newer version on to...

Heres what I have done.

I have copied a newer version of a file to replace the older version. However, I now want to recover the old version. But I did confirm that I wanted to repace the old version when Windows prompted me.

Anyone got any ideas??

Cheers

Ajay

 

[Kris]

The only thing you can try is a system restore (if you have it enabled) or reinstall the software (assuming it's a software system file).

 

[Ajbathija]

I copied an older outlook.pst onto a newer outlook.pst

Therefore I have over written the newer file with th older one. What I want to do i recover the newer one!!!!

What a mess!!!!!!

 

[shaun127]

Read this only a trial version but Im sure that you'll find a retail version somewhere

http://www.recovermyfiles.com/Download_RMF.html

 

[tabs]

Read this only a trial version but Im sure that you'll find a retail version somewhere

http://www.recovermyfiles.com/Download_RMF.html

Thanks m8, will definately come in handy.

 

[Ajbathija]

Hi. Thanks for that but it still did not work. Because they all recover deleted files. I copied one file over the other. None of these recovery programs can reverse this.

Any other ideas??

 

[shaun127]

Hi although you have overwrote file the should still be an archived version somewhere on you pc. Try the below link download the demo version. Mean while I'll Keep looking and post if I find something else of use. Let me no if this works.
Good Luck M8

http://www.officerecovery.com/outlook/index.htm

 

[Ajbathija]

Thanks again.....but still no joy. It recovered other files and folders, but not the pst file I needed.

PLease keep the ideas coming.

Regards

Ajay

 

[Ajbathija]

Thanks again.....but still no joy. It recovered other files and folders, but not the pst file I needed.

PLease keep the ideas coming.

Regards

Ajay

 

[shaun127]

Try here

Hi been looking and found these links, But to be honest I aint Hopeful
Good Luck anyway

http://itt.theintegrity.net/pmwiki.php?n=ITT.OutlookPST

http://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=24017

http://www.computing.net/office/wwwboard/forum/5532.html

http://www.downloadjunction.com/product/software/2506/index.html

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=111449

http://www.sharewareconnection.com/stellar-phoenix-mailbox-professional.htm

 

[pseudo]

The file should be on the drive somewhere, i think the system would have saved the new file and then just deleted or changed the entries in the File Allocation Table to the location of the new file.

 

[pseudo]

The file should be on the drive somewhere, i think the system would have saved the new file and then just deleted or changed the entries in the File Allocation Table to the location of the new file.

 

[Cobra01706]

Msconfig

Ok you could try this see if its going to be any help, Go to Start > Run, And type: "msconfig" hit enter. On the general tab you will see a button called "Expand File" So if you click that it will ask you the file name to restore, you can also browse for it, and then where to restore from, try restoring it from your XP Cd and see if you have any luck, You may need to select where it saves the backup file, gewd luck

 

[Psy]

Get Winhex free off the internet. Use it to examine the $MFT of your drive searching for the filename in the MFT.

When you find the relevant entry it will give you the cluster number of where the file was stored. You can then go to that area on the disk and copy it out from there.

 

[shaun127]

trial version

http://www.topshareware.com/WinHex-download-9171.htm