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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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