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Operating Systems Linux Is it possible to revert a file after overwriting it ? Post 302578812 by Corona688 on Friday 2nd of December 2011 11:15:43 AM
Old 12-02-2011
If you didn't make a backup, you unfortunately don't have a backup. Overwriting a file is even more dicey than deleting it, deleted files may leave partial contents floating around in unallocated disk sectors, overwriting it may actually trash it so there's literally nothing left.

I can't speak for notepad++ though. It might have made temporary files and, given it crashed, not deleted them. Check for temporary files in /tmp/ as well as any recently-modified files under where WINE keeps temp files for Windows and your user (probably ~/.wine/ )

If you want to look contents floating around in raw disk, stop using that disk immediately, boot a livecd, and scan that partition with magicrescue for ASCII text files. It will find text files on your system, potentially in fragments, and save them as numbered files. You'll likely have a ton of files to pick through and sadly aren't guaranteed to find what you want at all.
 

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copyfs

COPYFS(1)						      Versioning File System							 COPYFS(1)

NAME

       CopyFS - Versioning File System for FUSE

DESCRIPTION

       CopyFS  is  a copy-on-write, versioning file system for FUSE. CopyFS can be used to maintain the revision history of a directory containing
       files for which you want to track changes, and be able to revert to any older version. CopyFS lets you  do  that  by  transparently  making
       backups of each file that you modify so that you can review and revert to any previous revision.

       Here is the list of commands related to CopyFS. See their man pages for additional documentation.

       copyfs-mount(1)
	      Allows a directory to be placed under CopyFS revision control.

       copyfs-fversion(1)
	      This command lets you check the revision history of a file, and revert to an older version.

       copyfs-daemon(1)
	      The CopyFS file system itself. You should not have to run it directly, instead use the copyfs-mount command.

HISTORY

       CopyFS 1.0 was released in December 2004.

AUTHORS

       CopyFS was created by Thomas Joubert and Nicolas Vigier <nv@n0x.org>

LINKS

       <http://n0x.org/copyfs/> CopyFS web site.

       <http://fuse.sourceforge.net/> FUSE - Filesystem in USErspace

SEE ALSO

       copyfs-fversion(1), copyfs-mount(1), copyfs-daemon(1)

copyfs								     May 2008								 COPYFS(1)
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