Yes, I did it. I ran a query and overwrote my previous DELETED table with a new DELETED table.

Is there any way to recover the old one? It had some data which I would hate to lose!

Thanks to whomever can help

depending on the amount of dead space on a drive, it's possible that the second one was written in a different place.. any purged file is simply given a different 1st character (i.e. "?eleted.db").. sometimes it remains on the drive for several months, sometimes for only a moment or two.. there are "undelete" utilities out there..