Damn! Could kick myself - help needed

coolVariable

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I have an external drive where I save all my digital photos.

So I was moving some new digital photos to this drive.
By mistake some files had the same names, so they overwrote each other.
Is there any way I can restore the overwritten files?
 

artikk

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Originally posted by: coolVariable
I have an external drive where I save all my digital photos.

So I was moving some new digital photos to this drive.
By mistake some files had the same names, so they overwrote each other.
Is there any way I can restore the overwritten files?

By my experience I am afraid not. However there might be a special program that some other posters know about that could do the trick. Hey Guys!!!???????;):clock::shocked::|:)
 

Zepper

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Sorry - a file overwritten by another of the same name is gone. No good backup program will overwrite same-named files without asking - time to get a good backup program (unless a certain someone - look in mirror - DISABLED that feature ;) ).
.bh.

:moon:
 

Budman

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I am afraid your file is gone,that's why they invented those usefull things called FOLDERS. ;)
 

coolVariable

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Tried restoring the original files with this program but it did not find the files in the location they were moved from ... rather stupid that windows doesn't have a good file recovery system ...
the ones out there seem to all suck.

PC Inspector File Recovery