Yep, "been there, done it, bought the T-Shirt".
That is why we have the the Care Team. Put in a support ticket at the top right of any Quick Base screen using the ? icon and ask for a "CSV restore as of last night" (assuming that you did the damage today), and provide them with a link to the table home page for the table with the lost data.
They will come back with a CSV file and you will import just two selected columns of it (not all the columns) . The [Record ID#] field and the field with the lost data. Merge in the data on Record ID#
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Mark Shnier (YQC)
Quick Base Solution Provider
Your Quick Base Coach
http://QuickBaseCoach.commark.shnier@gmail.com
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