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Recovering a file

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I accidentally saved a Word file with the same name as another document I need–urgently. I was working on my thesis and I accidentally saved my notes with the same name as the file where I had all my actual work, which I had just finished. I gotta turn this in very soon, so I don’t have to start all over again. What can I do?

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You’ll only be able to get the latest file. However, there is one hack that you can try open the word document and try doing CTRL+Z, see if that helps.

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You can try this method from Microsoft:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/recover-an-earlier-version-of-a-word-file-439d91d7-fe33-4edf-aa94-4b631c7ac380

Let us know if that works!

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That’s why people backup files they don’t want to lose. The go back to the last version they have on their backup medium, be it the cloud, a USB stick, an external hard drive or another computer in their home network.

If there is no backup all you can do is to take the hard disk out of your PC/laptop into an external enclosure, then make a copy of the disk to another disk on another PC and then use recovery software like Recuva to see if that can find the old file. Might take some time.

Let’s hope you can use the saved versions on OneDrive.

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In a Microsoft Word document, you can right-click then click “restore previous versions” to access a menu of all previous versions of that document and restore any version you want.
Can you try this once and see if you can get your file.

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File History is a replacement for the Backup and Restore feature that was present in older version of the Windows operating system, allowing for simply recover deleted files windows 10 Recycle Bin recovery recover deleted files windows 10 free Windows 10 as well as for the recovery of permanently deleted files.

To Recover Deleted Files on Windows 10 for free:
Open the Start menu.
Type “restore files” and hit Enter on your keyboard.
Look for the folder where you deleted files were stored.
Select the “Restore” button in the middle to undelete Windows 10 files to their original location.Recover deleted files on Windows 10 from recycle bin with File History Backup feature
If you cannot see any folders, that’s probably because File History is turned off. In that case, you should see an option to turn it on.

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To restore a file from a backup, make sure the media or drive that your backup is saved on is available, and then follow these steps:

To restore files from a backup

Open Backup and Restore by selecting the Start button Start button icon, selecting Control Panel, selecting System and Maintenance, and then selecting Backup and Restore.

Select Restore my files, and then follow the steps in the wizard.

Regards,
Rachel Gomez

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Well sorry about this.

You can try opening the document and pressing the famous magical keys CTRL+Z to check whether there is any previous version left or not.

You can go to your Start Search Bar and search for “Restore your Files” in “Files History”.

Or you can open the file and find the roll-back to previous version.

Hope you get your files back.

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