Dont you hate when you delete something with no backup?
 

I was working on a plugin for wordpress mobile users, and i deleted it by mistake

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i hate that it still happennsssss

Sucks man, use one of those backup on the fly programs. Like iDrive.

Carbonite
Crashplan

Automatic, continual backup in the cloud.

If you just did it and you aren't on a weird setup like encrypted drives you might be able to get it back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoRec

If you haven't turned off the computer and it just happened it might also be worth saving a memory dump and any swap file for later analysis. You have a good chance actually -- if it's that important.

yes, on linux, all the time and via fucking ftp.

Since this is coming from Fris (i.e. technical type), I'm assuming it's not possible to 'undelete' it or else you'd already have done that.

If it's on your HDD - have Recuva installed and just get it back right away...


Also do all your development in Drobpox foler since you have history of 30 changes :)

just my :2 cents:

I've been in a bad habit the last few years of using shift+delete, instead of putting stuff in the recycle bin.

It's bitten me a couple of times.

Did that last week, It was saved in Excel. Tried everything to recover it including recuva. Thought MS auto saved things these days like wordpress.

that's what timemachine is for :winkwink:

To tell you the truth I have only done it by mistake 3-4 in the last 14 years.

ya it wasnt under version control or cloud, i deleted it from a dedicated where i dont have backups ;)

I hate it when I delete things I've never done in order to make up an excuse for not having them...

I was working on a PPT for a demo of our program... spent almost 3 solid days working on it and saved it to my desktop. I thought I had moved it to dropbox and deleted it then emptied my trash

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo pissed.

You could try cat/more/less on the entire drive device to search for a specific string you know is in your source. I did this once when I stupidly deleted source.c instead of the compiled executable. Took a while to sift through 300GB of data, but I found and recovered it.

edit: now I think about it, I believe it was something more stupid, like gcc -o source.c source.c, which overwrites the original source with the compiled program. hurrrr