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In article <3312337f.3000827@news.tripnet.se>,
	Fredrik.Jahn@tripnet.se (Fredrik Jahn) writes:

> I am using Atari 520 Ste 1Mb  with Notoator. I by mistake deleted a
> file from within Notator. Is there anyway to recover this file? I had
> put a lot of work into this song, so I woud be most grateful for any
> advice?

[It's been a while since I've done anything with Atari/DOS filesystems
so the following is based on memory, I'm sure someone will correct me
if I'm wrong].

Provided you haven't written any data to the disk since, then you might
be able to recover it.

When a file gets deleted all that happens is that the first character
of the filename gets changed to a special character, and then the directory
entry it was using and space the file occupied gets released for re-use.

So, you may be able to go in with a sector editor and restore the
filename, and hence your data.  I think this is all stored in the FAT (File
Allocation Table), and I believe there are two copies per filesystem, so
edit both.

This may work, but the times I've tried it before now weren't ever too
successful.

-Paul-

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