Lost data

[Christopher Chan]

On Thursday, September 16, 2010 06:07 AM, Erlend Clouston wrote:
> Greetings! Part of a very important file I was working on this evening
> has vanished. (The other part remains visible.) A techie friend
> speculates that I may have accidentally highlighted and then deleted the
> vanished section. He says not to worry, as "it will be somewhere on your
> hard disc." Hmm. Is there any simple way for a non-techie to test his
> thesis?
> Thanks for any simple advice.

What kind of file is it and what were you using to work on it?