Help I overwrote my library!!

I'm using the ap 3 trial version and had imported a library plus started adding new stuff to it. today i decided i also wanted to create a new library and import some other old stuff into it as i am planning to upgrade. somehow I gave it the same name (I thought it was different) and now my original library is gone. Any tricks to recovering short of getting my online restore (which thank GOD I do - love backblaze)

If you gave it the same name and saved it in the same place, it would give you a warning telling you that replacing that library with one of the same name would overwrite that library and asking if that's what you want to do.
Are you saying you clicked the Replace button? If so, you'll have to restore. If not, that library is somewhere on your system. Are you sure it saved in the same place?
Also, the trial is not supposed to allow the user to import previous library unless that changed after the original release.
DLS

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