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Need to recover a PowerPoint file

A colleague of mine (wasn't me, honest!) accidentally saved over a PowerPoint file, and no, there is not a back-up.

What might work in terms of file recovery, or is she, as they say, up the creek without a paddle?
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Unfortunately there's unlikey to be an old TMP file. PowerPoint tells you straight away if one exists and offers to delete it. Worth a go though a search for PPT*.TMP will find them. The wildcard * represents a number, usually 4 digits.

Not relevant here but may help others All versions of windows 7 and high end versions of Vista store "Previous Versions" which can be restored.

Worth knowing that all versions of Vista do this too but it's only the high end versions that have a GUI to get them back. If you have a lower version you can restore with code.
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Thanks everyone!

Turns out my co-worker had emailed a copy of the file to another colleague, so she was able to recover it that way :)