Re: How can I recover a (large) file that I have started to COPY over (rather than delete) ?
- From: Malke <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:14:35 -0800
ship wrote:
(snippage)
Either way it remains one of the most STUPID things about m$Windows
that
if you over-write a file with a file of the same name that the system
isnt clever
enough to formally "Delete" that file first (i.e.put it into the
"Recycle bid") .
And thus copying data from disk to disk remains a very dangerous
process
- simply because if you get confused about which disk you have mapped
to what location you will delete you g*ddam data, apparently, for all
time.
I'm very sorry for your loss but you have a misunderstanding about how computers and operating systems work. When you overwrite a file with new data, it is never "formally" deleted in *any* operating system. This behavior has nothing to do with Windows and everything to do with what "Save" means - in Unix, Linux, OS X, and Windows.
I'm afraid that it wasn't "m$Windows" that was stupid.
Of course, if you had Leopard with Time Machine or Vista Business/Ultimate, you could get back the previous version of your file. Since you don't, learn to be more careful in the future.
EOT for me.
Malke
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