I just had one of those “gulp!” moments … it’s 3am, and I’d been editing a PowerPoint for maybe 5-6 hours. \u00c2\u00a0I’d used a previous deck as a template, and because I thought I might want to sample from some slides. \u00c2\u00a0I clicked “save”. \u00c2\u00a0Uh oh … I never remembered to change the name of the PPT to a new deck — I just overwrote what turned out to be my only copy of the previous deck! \u00c2\u00a0And it was a critical deck. \u00c2\u00a0This is not the first time this has happened to me.<\/p>\n
Thanks to this post on restoring overwritten PowerPoint files<\/a>, I found ShadowExplorer, an awesome utility<\/a> … man, it’s my new best friend! \u00c2\u00a0I was immediately able to go to the directory and find my previous copy of the file and restore it … sanity and hours of work saved! \u00c2\u00a0Later, I determined that maybe I could have just gone in Windows Explorer to the directory, right-clicked on the file, and selected “Previous Versions”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I just had one of those “gulp!” moments … it’s 3am, and I’d been editing a PowerPoint for maybe 5-6 hours. \u00c2\u00a0I’d used a previous deck as a template, and because I thought I might want to sample from some slides. \u00c2\u00a0I clicked “save”. \u00c2\u00a0Uh oh … I never remembered to change the name of … Continue reading “Holy cow … restore overwritten files!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}