Recover overwritten files in cs5. possible?

Hi, unfortunately i've overwritten my cs5 project with an old version of the same file. Is there any chance to recover my the lost data?
I hope ID has a backup function, temp files or something like this.
thanks

ID saves recovery information as you work in your user profile or user library (or some other location of your choice), and automatically tries to open that file on restart after a crash, but as far as I know a successful close removes the recovery data for that file, and I don't know of any way to access and resave any of the recovery files (which would be at something very near the last state of the document anyway with no ability to undo, as far as I know) outside of the automated routines.
How would an older version have boththe same name AND file location as the current version? An ordinary save would have overwritten the old version, so if you've overwritten the new one you must have done a Save As (maybe you did?) in the new version location (which is easy to do with ID's habit of looking in the last place you saved a file when doing a save as).
All might not be lost, though. If this was a converted file from an older version, ID appends [converted] to the file name by default and wouldn't have overwritten anything unless you removed it from the filename intentionally. So now it comes down to what versions, and waht states, might still exist in various locations. It's possible you've lost yesterday's work, but you may not be as bad off as you think.
I highly recommend insituting a daily backup plan that writes your data files to external media. Good for a hard drive failure, and the occasional brain fart. Most of us get religeon after a situation just like this one.

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