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Also, a longshot, but ERD Commander has a File Restore, which can recover files that have been deleted. You may be able to boot into that and find a previous version, or a temp version that was stored somewhere.<br />
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But like I said, that's a long shot.
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Also, a longshot, but ERD Commander has a File Restore, which can recover files that have been deleted. You may be able to boot into that and find a previous version, or a temp version that was stored somewhere.

But like I said, that's a long shot.

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Hi all,<br />
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A quite large Excel file is suddenly blank and has a file size of 0. &nbsp;The file was fine yesterday, but empty today. &nbsp;It's stored on a Windows 2003 Server, but one that does not have shadow backups enabled. &nbsp;There is no other recent copy of this file.<br />
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Can anyone recommend or suggest a way to recover a previous version of the file (say from yesterday)? &nbsp;I assumed that shadow backups was enabled by default, I know now that it's not...<br />
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Thanks,<br />
<br />
Paul
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Hi all,

A quite large Excel file is suddenly blank and has a file size of 0.  The file was fine yesterday, but empty today.  It's stored on a Windows 2003 Server, but one that does not have shadow backups enabled.  There is no other recent copy of this file.

Can anyone recommend or suggest a way to recover a previous version of the file (say from yesterday)?  I assumed that shadow backups was enabled by default, I know now that it's not...

Thanks,

Paul

How to recover previous version of file from SBS without shadow backups enabled?

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).