OVERRIDDEN INDESIGN DOCUMENT RECOVERY???

I accidentally saved an Indesign CS4 document as the name of another document, and saying "replace", overriding it completely. It was just 2 saves ago that I would like to recover.
I already closed and reopened the document. Is there any way to recover what I did? I have lost the last week's worth of work because of this silly middle-of-the-night mistake!!
please help!

If you don't have backup, that file is toast.
I can give you some advice for the future, however, in this blog post:
http://boblevine.us/why-i-always-save-files-in-dropbox-and-why-you-should-too/
Bob

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