I accidently overwrote my render files with hardware render files....

So, I work on my animations in parts. I do 30 seconds at a time, because any more than that will kill my computer. I had done 30 seconds, so I did save save as new file. I didn’t realize it saved the render path I had before, and i usually just leave it at tmp when doing hardware previews and… It overwrote my rendered animation. I REALLLY Don’t want to have to rerender it, so is there anything I can do to get the files back? ;-; please help and thank you in advance

It overwrote my rendered animation. I REALLLY Don’t want to have to rerender it, so is there anything I can do to get the files back?
If you over wrote them, no, just like if you overwrite any other files. Just use the backups that you made. If the file has any importance you of course have made a backup. If you did not make a backup then one can only assume that you have no problems if you ever lose that file so in that case it sounds like there is no problem.