Save instead of SaveAs

[pldcav]

I was using Microsoft Office Picture Manager to crop a graphics file and use it somewhere else, and I clicked Save instead of Saving it under a new file name.

Is there any way of getting at the original file, even in a corrupted form? Some of it must be still on the hard drive, just no longer tagged as being part of the file.

Any suggestions very welcome.

[vehelpfulguy]

I know you have learnt the hard way but NEVER work on the original of a digital file.

Either make a copy of the originals and put them in another folder and never touch them.

Or better still back digital images up to CD or DVD. Then copy them from CD or DVD to your hard disk and work on those.

Then whatever happens you always have them backed up on to CD or DVD.

[pldcav]

All my really important files are indeed held on a second hard drive, with many also backed up onto CDs. If I can't recover this one, it's not the end of the world. For the moment, I'm avoiding doing anything that will write to the hard drive, in case anyone comes up with some suggestions.

[camioneur]

really easy answer to your problem is simply copy the picture within picture manager, then paste it into the same file, and then work on the copy thus leaving original untouched

[camioneur]

Sorry, that didn't answer your question at all did it, must read more carefully, however, next time.......

[pldcav]

I didn't want to overcomplicate things in my original statement of the problem, but what I actually did was to crop the file and SaveAs a new file name (thereby keeping the original version). If I'd exited at that point, all would have been well as it would have prompted me that there were unsaved changes (in the original version) and I could have said "Don't Save". That's the way I'd been working happily enough on other files.

However, this time I decided to make a few more changes and when I saved those it did so under the original file name not the new one.

Another lesson learned the hard way!