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I had annotated a pdf in Okular that had been generated via pdflatex and saved it. I was able to open and see the annotations.

However, I guess I did a Ctrl-S on the tex file by mistake and that over-wrote the whole pdf and I've lost all my annotations.

Is there any way in which I can recover the annotations of my pdf?

I use Ubuntu 18.04 and Okular 1.7.2

Mahathi Vempati
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    see: https://askubuntu.com/questions/543159/can-i-recover-a-deleted-file/543168#543168 there's even less chance of there being anything to recover when you overwrite compared to `rm` (because old information is actually written over). Recommended for the future to use version control software or to at least use a different file name for your working document. This would be sound advice for any OS. – Nmath Oct 31 '19 at 05:16
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    I guess you may recover the annotations only if you have a backup or use some versioning system. I use Dropbox for my documents and it has a handy feature to restore previous versions of the file. Has saved me a few times. – To Do Mar 18 '20 at 11:10

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