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Accidentally saved a new game over my old game

Geoff_1Geoff_1 Member Posts: 4
edited March 2013 in Windows PC (Archive)
I made a new character and accidentally saved it over my old game which was pretty far. Is there any hope of retrieving that old game file? Or is it a lost cause?
Post edited by Jalily on

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  • SophiaSophia Member, Translator (NDA) Posts: 581
    I'm afraid it's a lost cause if you saved over it. Do you have other saves of that game? Maybe an auto-save? If you don't I'm afraid that it's gone :(.
    Anyway you wrote in the wrong section @Aedan @Metalloman
    AedanGeoff_1
  • AedanAedan Member, Translator (NDA) Posts: 8,550
    Moved into the Support section.
  • Geoff_1Geoff_1 Member Posts: 4
    Alright, thanks.
  • DjimmyDjimmy Member Posts: 749
    You can use Recuva(http://www.piriform.com/recuva) to find older versions of the files. Hope it helps.
    Geoff_1
  • mlnevesemlnevese Member, Moderator Posts: 10,214
    edited March 2013
    If you're using windows 7 there is a small chance the file can be recovered if the correct options are enabled.

    Right click the savegame folder and go to the previous versions tab. It may be named something similar, my windows version is localized. If you don~t have this tab then recovering options in Windows are disabled.
    Post edited by mlnevese on
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  • bigdogchrisbigdogchris Member Posts: 1,336
    @mlnevese has the suggestion to try first.

    The problem with recuva metha is that the file wasn't deleted, it was overwrote. The file has already been destroyed.
    Geoff_1SCARY_WIZARD
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