Accidently Overwrited my save.

[tjoli1]

Is there any way to get this save back? I have spent roughly 300 hours on this save and was trying to load it, but didnt realize I had pressed save instead of load, so i saved a new game over the existing one!

PLEASE HELP!

[X2-Illuminatus]

The game has no means to restore overwritten files, if that's what you mean. But you can find softwares on the internet, which may be able to restore deleted/overwritten files. A short google search brought up this article with links to and explanations of respective softwares. I haven't tried anything of this yet, so you will have to try and see for yourself if it works.

[ubuntufreakdragon]

It can be even worse as you exactly told the game to overwrite the file in question its not deleted but the data was changed, so not rescue program will ever work.
You could cheat most of your progress back in a new save of cause.

[Alan Phipps]

Also you have lots of game save slots available anyway and the ability to copy saves elsewhere (unless playing official DiD) and so why would you risk all 300 hours playing on just one save without any backup?

Could I advise mrbadger's excellent savegame manager where you can save different games (different mods and/or vanilla mix) as separate campaigns and so never risk mistakenly overwriting something important again. It even has a foolproof vault for the most important saves that you *really* want to keep. It is entirely vanilla-safe for vanilla campaigns.

[DrSuperEvil]

About every month I make a backup of my saves and only use specific slots to save in. If you have autosave activated you will only have lost between your last save and when you last docked. Your save files should be under This PC>Documents>Egosoft>X3AP>Save

[BDK]

Call me old fashioned, but I always keep manual backups of my saves.