Recover previous version of files?

[Jacob S. <j-schroeder@myrealbox.com>]

I was viewing a large html file in an html editor, and edited out 90%
of it's content, and meant to save it to a separate file. However, I
accidentally saved it to the same location as the larger file. The file
was opened from, and saved to an ext3 partition. Is there a way to
recover the old, larger file? 

Debugfs, lsdel only shows deleted inodes as recent as Aug. 2nd, so I
know it's not showing the file. 

I still have a copy of the original file open in an html viewer (Opera),
but it tries to read the saved copy, whenever you tell it to save it to
a different location, or even a simple "view source". 

I know I can cut and paste the file, using my mouse, but then it
doesn't copy the html tags. 

(This file isn't anything mission critical, so it really is ok if it
gets lost, I just thought I'd use it as practice run, should I ever
need to recover something important.)

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

TIA,
Jacob


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