How to recover files overwritten by CVI

[FOM]

I have just had my work of several hours overwritten by LabWindows CVI. I wanted to close the thing when it prompted an innocent message (something about overwriting "recent changes", which I took to be the very last lines I had written and did not intend to keep). Instead, it erased the whole day's work.  

And guess what: I want it back, very, very badly.

So please, tell me there is a place where my files still exist in one form or another.

They were there one mouse click ago, they must have remained somewhere.

Please let me know asap. Thanks.

[Ian.W]

If you are running Vista you can right-click on the file and choose "Restore previous versions" and get it back.

(I hope you've been ignoring the popular press when it comes to advice on whether to run Vista!)

--Ian

[FOM]

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Ian W wrote:

If you are running Vista you can right-click on the file and choose "Restore previous versions" and get it back.

(I hope you've been ignoring the popular press when it comes to advice on whether to run Vista!)

--Ian

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Hi,

Thanks for the prompt reply.

I have unfortunately lost my day's work (i am running XP SP2). I don't know what happened, because I cannot reproduce the phenomenon and get the same fateful  messages that I saw to pop up again. Some sort of CVI restore function gone wrong, I presume... Note: it is only my second day of work with LabWindows/CVI 8.5, and I never had any such problem with 8.1.

Side note: My own experience with Vista has been fairly bad. An OS which so consistently fails in so many ways cannot be trusted, period. The developpers at MS may aim at improving things over XP, but they should first make sure their new OS can handle file copy properly...

FM