Notepad - accidental save vice save as...

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I'm working in Notepad and accidentally clicked "save" vice "save as",
effectively overwriting the file that I was using as a template. Does
Windows keep archives of previous editions for a blunder such as this so that
I may resurrect the previous oversaved material?
Thanks
AB.
 
Re: Notepad - accidental save vice save as...

No.

poguelife wrote:
> I'm working in Notepad and accidentally clicked "save" vice "save as",
> effectively overwriting the file that I was using as a template. Does
> Windows keep archives of previous editions for a blunder such as this so
> that I may resurrect the previous oversaved material?
> Thanks
> AB.
 
Re: Notepad - accidental save vice save as...

poguelife <poguelife@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I'm working in Notepad and accidentally clicked "save" vice "save as",
> effectively overwriting the file that I was using as a template. Does
> Windows keep archives of previous editions for a blunder such as this
> so that I may resurrect the previous oversaved material?
> Thanks
> AB.

No, not if you didn't make a backup copy first, sorry.
 
Re: Notepad - accidental save vice save as...

poguelife wrote:
> I'm working in Notepad and accidentally clicked "save" vice "save as",
> effectively overwriting the file that I was using as a template. Does
> Windows keep archives of previous editions for a blunder such as this
> so that I may resurrect the previous oversaved material?
> Thanks
> AB.

YES!

You can tap [Ctrl-Z] to undo changes.

'Course if you've already exited Notepad...
 
Re: Notepad - accidental save vice save as...

In article <F2B7BA6D-6A4C-4939-A8A1-61C21EEC46C3@microsoft.com>,
poguelife@discussions.microsoft.com says...
> I'm working in Notepad and accidentally clicked "save" vice "save as",
> effectively overwriting the file that I was using as a template. Does
> Windows keep archives of previous editions for a blunder such as this so that
> I may resurrect the previous oversaved material?

No backups, and that's why you make templates READ-ONLY (file
permissions) so that you can't accidentally overwrite them.

Just restore the template from your backup - you do have a regular
backup of your important files, right?

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