Thank you for your help, Akanchha. I realise the privacy concern; I could provide my login but that could (in the wrong hands) be a privacy issue in itself for online data. I appreciate the time and thought you've given to my problem, you've given me helpful pointers. Best wishes, Mark. ... View more

Hi Akanchha, Thank you for taking the time to consider my problem. Apologies for my delay in replying. The annotated file isn't on the document cloud or saved locally, when I checked. The last time I saw it was just before I logged into the document cloud, before which there was "1" showing i.e. the document was "queued" to be saved to the document cloud as soon as I logged in, and sure enough the "1" disappeared in real-time when I logged in. But I think because there were already 2 files of the same name on the document cloud, this 3rd one maybe confused things? The only hope is that it may be extractable somehow from the iPad memory (not RAM)? Because surely a deleted file is still there. Unless, of course, it got overwritten... However, that annotated file was considerably different to the other 2 files, and I did read somewhere that this could mean the iPad will treat them as distinct files despite them having the same name (and therefore increasing the chance of rescuing the file). I'm not sure. I just guess that's my best chance, given the file isn't on the device or document cloud file lists including "recent". I'll have to be really careful in future. Thanks for your help, Mark. ... View more

Hi Akanchha, Thank you so much for your help. I have looked on the document cloud, but the file is still the older version with no annotations. I actually had added a single annotation, and because of that I ended up with 3 files of same name but different content. Am I right in thinking that now my only hope is that the file is overwritten *but* may still be recoverable from my iPad? I.e. hidden from the file list in the app but still stored somewhere? If so, maybe I can have it recovered by someone? I have only saved one unrelated file to the iPad since, so maybe a chance the pdf file hasn't been overwritten by my iPad? (Given that deleted files aren't actually "deleted," but rather "marked" as unallocated ready for overwriting by iPad.) This is complicated by the fact the file *may* be overwritten in the sense of by the document cloud...I'm a bit puzzled by my predicament, and distraught at the data loss...hopefully it's not deleted beyond retrieval? (Overwritten covers two distinct aspects here: 1) by the same-name file 2) by the iPad's storage.) Best regards, Mark. ... View more