> I didnt think of this idea. But i checked just now there are no .bak files in my folder except 1 or 2 files.
>
> Why So?

See Mikes answer!

bak files will only be created at certain actions, eg when you alter a table
with the ALTER TABLE command, not by update/insert/delete. Imagine how many
bak files you'd had and how long such operations would need, if they'd copy
the whole file everytime :-).

You can recover these files, if you have a backup, your data is lost
if you haven't. That's about it. There is recovery software available
to get back deleted files, but not overwritten ones.

Bye, Olaf.