[David]

Dear Adviser,
By a false manouevre I have lost the most recent version of an important
chapter to my book. An old version is on USB memory but the work done on the
new version would take a month or more to re do apart from the mental and
emotional strain of doing so. I am very down at heart. What happened - I
think was while copying the main lines of the new chapter on to my old draft
'preface' doc I must have saved the preface under the name of the draft
chapter and now have two preface's and no draft chapter. I closed down the
computer to have lunch and discovered the loss when i started up later.
Is there any way of retrieving the lost work?
Greatly appreciate your assistance,
Best for the New Year
David

[CyberTaz]

Without knowing exactly what you did it's impossible to say for sure, but if
you did, in fact, overwrite one file with another of the same name there is
no hope of retrieving the original... Especially if you have since shut down
the program. Further, if you also shut down the computer there is virtually
no hope of recovering anything from a temporary file.

Regards |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 1/8/08 3:45 AM, in article
, "David"
wrote:

Dear Adviser,
By a false manouevre I have lost the most recent version of an important
chapter to my book. An old version is on USB memory but the work done on the
new version would take a month or more to re do apart from the mental and
emotional strain of doing so. I am very down at heart. What happened - I
think was while copying the main lines of the new chapter on to my old draft
'preface' doc I must have saved the preface under the name of the draft
chapter and now have two preface's and no draft chapter. I closed down the
computer to have lunch and discovered the loss when i started up later.
Is there any way of retrieving the lost work?
Greatly appreciate your assistance,
Best for the New Year
David

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The only hope I can add to alleviate what Bob has said is that many writers
confirm that rewriting usually goes much faster than the original
composition and frequently results in a better version (because you are
better organized and already have a clear idea of what you want to say).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"CyberTaz" wrote in message
.. .
Without knowing exactly what you did it's impossible to say for sure, but
if
you did, in fact, overwrite one file with another of the same name there
is
no hope of retrieving the original... Especially if you have since shut
down
the program. Further, if you also shut down the computer there is
virtually
no hope of recovering anything from a temporary file.

Regards |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 1/8/08 3:45 AM, in article
, "David"
wrote:

Dear Adviser,
By a false manouevre I have lost the most recent version of an important
chapter to my book. An old version is on USB memory but the work done on
the
new version would take a month or more to re do apart from the mental and
emotional strain of doing so. I am very down at heart. What happened - I
think was while copying the main lines of the new chapter on to my old
draft
'preface' doc I must have saved the preface under the name of the draft
chapter and now have two preface's and no draft chapter. I closed down
the
computer to have lunch and discovered the loss when i started up later.
Is there any way of retrieving the lost work?
Greatly appreciate your assistance,
Best for the New Year
David