Retrieving replaced files?

[videodirector]

I made a huge mistake. I really hope this can be answered. Im going to bullet this to make it clearer.

--I have a folder that contains video clips

--The video clips are backups from the media I captured (from my camcorder) using vegas 5

--Vegas 5, as most of you know, uses these backups to read the files.

--Vegas 5 actually outputs the videos to "my videos" folder. It doesnt go into my file until I manually put it in.

--So I recently put new video clips in.

--They outputted to "my videos" folder and I put them into my folder that contains the backups for vegas 5.

--these files had the same name as the files that were already in the file.

--so i dragged and dropped them in and it said, these files already exist, do you want to replace them?

--I, extremely accidentally, pushed "yes to all", which now concludes my horror.

--all of the files were replaced with the new ones.

I have tried restoring my computer back to the point where I had the clips, but I then realized it doesn't affect my documents. And I can not re-capture the clips because I was unfortunately forced to record over all of it. So the only place it existed was on my computer. Is there anyway to get these files back? Any programs at all? I know these questions probably don't relate to this forum because they have to do with computer issues, not video issues, but most of you have experience with these sort of events and know how to handle them. If there is I have no idea how much I can thank you. If not I still thankyou for your effort and help.




overall questions:
Is there anyway to get these files back? Any programs at all?

[guns1inger]

In all likelihood these are irretrievably gone. If they have not been replaced entirely, then there is a good chance they have been written over at least in part. You could try one of the many file retrieval programs available, just to see if anything is still viable, but I would not hold out too much hope.

[videodirector]

I am not shocked to hear this. It's what I suspected. I'm on the verge of giving up. Just pray I can keep myself in line. One more obstacle and I will indefinitley give up.

[redwudz]

There is a slight possibility, but you would need to not access the drive again. I hope it's not the boot drive. That would be especially hard to recover. It's similar to erasing a file. The OS will use to freed space to write more files there.

And since this is a computer problem, you would likely get more advice in our computer forum. Moving you. And good luck.

[bobkart]

I believe this is no different than if you had simply deleted the files you want back. Since the source files that were moved onto them already existed, there was no re-use of the freed blocks they occupied, at least not by the repalcement itself. I suspect an 'undelete' application would find them just as it would find a mistakenly deleted file.

[Alex_ander]

I believe this is no different than if you had simply deleted the files you want back. Since the source files that were moved onto them already existed, there was no re-use of the freed blocks they occupied, at least not by the repalcement itself. I suspect an 'undelete' application would find them just as it would find a mistakenly deleted file.

Yes, there still may be a chance if the ovewrite files were from the same HDD partition. Try something like Recover4All. Avoid writing to that partition before your attempt.

[bobkart]

Yes, shortly after posting that I realized it would not be the case for files coming from another drive (or partition on the same drive), since that is really just a copy followed by a delete of the source file, as opposed to a delete of the target file and relocation of the source file with no new file allocation (the situation I described).

[JerryB]

hi,
my answer is similar ..
first. using a system restore point does not recover files....

if the files are not in your recycle bin.... and they are deleted then a out side chance of recovery by using a undelete/unerase program.... but time is the essence,,,

there free undelete programs avail at tucows.com and download.com...... and simple to use...

if they are recoverable make sure you don't put them in the folder that has those other files with the same name....

I made a huge mistake. I really hope this can be answered. Im going to bullet this to make it clearer.

--I have a folder that contains video clips

--The video clips are backups from the media I captured (from my camcorder) using vegas 5

--Vegas 5, as most of you know, uses these backups to read the files.

--Vegas 5 actually outputs the videos to "my videos" folder. It doesnt go into my file until I manually put it in.

--So I recently put new video clips in.

--They outputted to "my videos" folder and I put them into my folder that contains the backups for vegas 5.

--these files had the same name as the files that were already in the file.

--so i dragged and dropped them in and it said, these files already exist, do you want to replace them?

--I, extremely accidentally, pushed "yes to all", which now concludes my horror.

--all of the files were replaced with the new ones.

I have tried restoring my computer back to the point where I had the clips, but I then realized it doesn't affect my documents. And I can not re-capture the clips because I was unfortunately forced to record over all of it. So the only place it existed was on my computer. Is there anyway to get these files back? Any programs at all? I know these questions probably don't relate to this forum because they have to do with computer issues, not video issues, but most of you have experience with these sort of events and know how to handle them. If there is I have no idea how much I can thank you. If not I still thankyou for your effort and help.




overall questions:
Is there anyway to get these files back? Any programs at all?

[videodirector]

Thankyou for the suggestions once again. I bumped into some incredible retrieving programs. Unfortunately, none of them could retrieve the files. But I am now prepared for the future and some extreme backing up is in line. I will continue to try, but I'm pretty sure I will get the same answers. But thanks to all of you. I now have the programs I need when a situation as unfortunate as this occurs once again.