Recover previously saved files

Hi -
I've been working in GarageBand and previous work was lost.
I was wondering if there was any way for me to go into the harddrive and recover any previously save versions of this project. I lost a lot of work!
I did not have time machine on at the time, and this is just work that I did yesterday.
Any suggestions?
thank you,

Stop using your MBP.
Material that has been put into and emptied in trash will remain ion the HDD until over written.
Download from the Intranet data recovery software and see if they can help your. situation, There are NO guarantees.
If the data is really critical, you can engage a professional data recovery firm. It will be very expensive with NO guarantees.
As you now appreciate, backups are very important.
Ciao.

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Recovering previously saved files

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It depends. If you had AutoSave turned on & AppleWorks crashed, you might find
If you did one of two things while this file was open in AppleWorks - renamed the file in the Finder or moved the File in the Finder - not likely. Either of these will "break" AppleWorks connection to the file. Unless you had a program running in the background that records keyboard input, I'm afraid your work is lost & you will have to re-do it. There are two user tips dealing with this:
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http://www.greatcirclelearning.com/zapps-got-ur-back
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