Restoring files on a WD Passort external drive (1 Viewer)

[El Floppo]

Hi Tech Guys... **HELP**!!!!

Is there a way of reverting or restoring the files on WD Passport to an early time or date?

I worked all weekend from home, saving files to my WD Passport external drive. When I got to work this morning, instead of saving the files back to my work server from the Passport, I saved the files from the server to the Passport... replacing all of the work I did over the weekend with last week's files.

This was an absolute FML moment, and I'm hoping somebody out there knows a way of fixing it.

I've called WD support, but for data recovery I have to send it out- a process that will likely take a week, which I can't do. The files I worked on this weekend are what I will be using to move forward- I either need an immediate solution or need to go back and work all over again to manually redo what I did this weekend, in which case I am pretty much ####ed.

TIA.

 

[IC FBGCav]

Hi Tech Guys... **HELP**!!!!

Is there a way of reverting or restoring the files on WD Passport to an early time or date?

I worked all weekend from home, saving files to my WD Passport external drive. When I got to work this morning, instead of saving the files back to my work server from the Passport, I saved the files from the server to the Passport... replacing all of the work I did over the weekend with last week's files.

This was an absolute FML moment, and I'm hoping somebody out there knows a way of fixing it.

I've called WD support, but for data recovery I have to send it out- a process that will likely take a week, which I can't do. The files I worked on this weekend are what I will be using to move forward- I either need an immediate solution or need to go back and work all over again to manually redo what I did this weekend, in which case I am pretty much ####ed.

TIA.

Sorry man.

 

[NewlyRetired]

I am sorry about this gb. :(

If you had deleted the files, we might be able to get them back.

But when you overwrite files, I believe the data is lost forever if not already backed up elsewhere.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/impossible-recover-data-overwritten-hard-drive-technology-explained/

 

[Nick Vermeil]

Did you save the files locally before moving to the external? Do you have your CAD set to auto save locally while you work?

 

[Nick Vermeil]

What operating system are you using? You can sometimes revert to previous versions of a file.

Windows 7

 

[IC FBGCav]

What operating system are you using? You can sometimes revert to previous versions of a file.

Windows 7

This may be very viable.

 

[IC FBGCav]

I am sorry about this gb. :(

If you had deleted the files, we might be able to get them back.

But when you overwrite files, I believe the data is lost forever if not already backed up elsewhere.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/impossible-recover-data-overwritten-hard-drive-technology-explained/

The data is not lost forever but it would take much time to recover it.

 

[El Floppo]

Did you save the files locally before moving to the external? Do you have your CAD set to auto save locally while you work?

I got the wife to send all .bak files (backup) which are only created when saved... got a little bit back, but only to the previous saves. (and of course, I wasn't saving every few minutes because I rely on autosave typically). better than nothing, and yet another reason I need to save more frequently.

There were no .sv$ (autosave) files, I assume because there wasn't a crash... my understanding is that they self-delete when the file closes normally.

 

[El Floppo]

What operating system are you using? You can sometimes revert to previous versions of a file.

Windows 7

This may be very viable.

thanks a lot guys- I got very excited at this prospect...

but no dice on my external drive. "there are no previous versions available".

 

[IC FBGCav]

What operating system are you using? You can sometimes revert to previous versions of a file.

Windows 7

This may be very viable.

thanks a lot guys- I got very excited at this prospect...

but no dice on my external drive. "there are no previous versions available".

It would be on the computer you did the work on.

 

[Nick Vermeil]

What operating system are you using? You can sometimes revert to previous versions of a file.

Windows 7

This may be very viable.

thanks a lot guys- I got very excited at this prospect...

but no dice on my external drive. "there are no previous versions available".

It would be on the computer you did the work on.

Unless he was writing directly to the external. Best practice is to save locally then move the files. I was hoping he did this but it sounds like that wasn't the case.

 

[El Floppo]

What operating system are you using? You can sometimes revert to previous versions of a file.

Windows 7

This may be very viable.

thanks a lot guys- I got very excited at this prospect...

but no dice on my external drive. "there are no previous versions available".

It would be on the computer you did the work on.

even if I never saved files to that computer? I only worked off of my external drive.

 

[El Floppo]

What operating system are you using? You can sometimes revert to previous versions of a file.

Windows 7

This may be very viable.

thanks a lot guys- I got very excited at this prospect...

but no dice on my external drive. "there are no previous versions available".

It would be on the computer you did the work on.

Unless he was writing directly to the external. Best practice is to save locally then move the files. I was hoping he did this but it sounds like that wasn't the case.

ugh.

lots of xrefs made me think moving to hard drive was going to be more work than necessary.

 

[El Floppo]

out of necessity, I'm just moving forward with redoing my work.

thanks for the time and suggestions- and if somebody thinks of something else, I'm all eager ears.

 

[Johnny Rock]

That sucks. Seriously.

Can someone overseas duplicate your work while you take a nap?