Data lost, no .bak file

I have synchronized my addresses on the handheld with my pc, overwriting the handheld data by mistake. Now I was looking for a backup file (address.bak), but it doesn´t exist, only .dat files. I screened palm/DesktoP and palm/ *myhandheld*. How can I find the lost backup data?
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With no .bak files there is no backup on the computer and since the device doesn't have a backup on itself either then you don't really have a backup there, so unfortunately I can probably say that your data is gone.
If you want to completly make sure that your data is gone then on your computer go to start/search and do a search for *.bak and see if it pulls up any files anywhere besides the regular location.
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