Accidentally pressed ctrl c instead of ctrl v anyway to recover lost data

Question

Within firefox, windows XP

Answer 1

there is a possiblity you can recovery the data but you would find it too hard to do. The data is stored in a portition of the memory not in a file so you would need a data recovery program that can access the memory directly in hexadecimal.

WINHex Forensics can do it, I know because I have seen the results, if its really important, dont do anything on you computer at all, buy and download winhex and install it, without shutting down firefox because windows will have a reserved space dor it and nothing will overwrite the memory blocks where the data was stored. Personally I would leave it but if your life depends on it call someone like "On Track Data Recovery" and they can defo can help you (even remotely but wil be very pricey!)

Answer 2

Go to your clipboard. Everything will still be there.

Answer 3

Umm... press control v?  Since control v is the paste command, anything you copied should still be able to be pasted unless you have restarted firefox or copied something else instead.  If you were browsing somewhere you can try browsing back and seeing if that brings you back to where your information was that you copied.

Answer 4

A Japanese haiku poem to shed some light on your problem:

"Three things are certain:

Death, taxes, and lost data.

Guess which has occurred."

Answer 5

Try the keyboard shortcut "ctrl-z" which is to undo anything you just did. Saved me many times!  

Answer 6

Control-Z is an undo command in most programs.  Worth a try.  

Answer 7

No you cant. if you copied something on the clipboard, and accidently copied something again, the previous copy is gone forever. Sorry but its true.

Answer 8

You should just be able to press control v again and it will copy.  U&nless you got REALLY mixed up and hit control v  first then deleted what you were trying to copy and then hit control c.  Then you are S.O.L.!  Sorry!