Occasionally, Blender will delete a file I am renaming or opening. “Revert” or “Recover” only works on each file once; after that, there is no tracing the file. Does anyone know where to find files that Blender deleted?
You can try to fint the autosave files in your temp folder, if autosave is selected in your preferences.
Rodrigo - thanks very much! That worked perfectly - mw
Note that the autosaves in temp or /tmp will not survive a reboot if you have your temporary folder/directory in RAM, so recover and save before reboot.