Though it happens rarely, overwritten or corrupted files on your PC are a serious issue, potentially setting your valuable work back by hours, weeks or more. File corruption occurs from a variety of ...

If you've overwritten a Word file and haven't saved any older copies of the file under different file names, you can check to see whether Windows 7 has a previous version of the file to restore to.

(Not sure which forum is best to put this in, since I'm not sure at what point in the chain of saving / storing a file this problem happened, but I'm gonna take a shot in the dark and say maybe it's ...

Are overwritten files really, truly gone? Or could some snoop, given enough money and resources, get that data back? In my story last week, Surviving a home data disaster: How Shirley got her files ...

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accidentally overwritten files at full tilt, providing a safety net for important documents and speeding up production time. Overwriting files to later discover that we need to get back to a previous ...

I just tried to overwrite a JPEG image that I had open in Preview with a newer version, and got a message about how the file couldn't be replaced because it was "in use." I had to quit Preview in ...