Microsoft Word Problem!

[Ammer]

I accidentally saved over my paper with a bibliography. Is there any way to get the paper back? This was on Microsoft Word.

[DiscordantNote]

I'm not sure you can. The only way I think you could is by going to a past version of your harddrive, but if you don't reguarly back it up there'd be very little to go with.

[Hyperion]

If you use the Windows ME or XP OS, you can roll back by using the System Restore feature, which makes automatic backups. But success relies on two assumptions:

1. That a backup was made after you saved your paper and before you saved your bibliography over it, and...
2. That System Restore even saves a Word document, or any document, for that matter. I lean towards the notion that it does, but I'm not entirely clear on what System Restore may exempt.

[freddyflinstone]

If you use the Windows ME or XP OS, you can roll back by using the System Restore feature, which makes automatic backups. But success relies on two assumptions:

1. That a backup was made after you saved your paper and before you saved your bibliography over it, and...
2. That System Restore even saves a Word document, or any document, for that matter. I lean towards the notion that it does, but I'm not entirely clear on what System Restore may exempt.

System restore does not do documents.

[Hyperion]

As the above user has pointed out, assumption two is erroneous.

[Ammer]

Well, thanks for the help guys but I ended re-doing my paper. Took me an hour and a half; I guess I remembered everything I wrote down.