recover MS WORD file I acidentally wrote over

funpie Said:

"recover MS WORD file I acidentally wrote over"

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Retrieving a Lost File:

A. Locate it Elsewhere:

You'll need to look for this in another place you have stored it in.

Another Option:

B. Perform a Restore:

Have a Time Machine Backup of your Mac that has this file? If so, you could grab it through restore and backup...

1. Create a Time Machine Backup of your Mac
2. Restore your Mac from a Time Machine Backup that you made that has this file.
3. Recover: the File
4. Restore your Mac from the Time Machine Backup that you created in step 1.

If it was overwritten by a file of the same exact name, that old file is gone and you need to try and recover it from your Backup set as described by the app developer. If that is Time Machine you do it by "entering Time Machine.