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Need to salvage my code. Does eclipse have cache of currently opened files? [message #1785800]

Fri, 20 April 2018 02:58

Eclipse User

Hi all

I am using eclipse oxigen from last year release. Yesterday my d drive died and the problem is d drive is where i save my codes. Two days before, I was working on a code and I had few files opened in eclipse. I closed the eclipse at e end of that day while leaving the currently edited codes in eclipse for ease of continuing editing them next time.

My eclipse is installed in c drive. Is there maybe a way to recover last opened files in eclipse? It would be awsome if i could recover my last code so I don't have to start back from zero. Maybe there is a cache of currently opened project or codes in c drive where eclipse was installed?

All helps and hints are much appreciated.

Re: Need to salvage my code. Does eclipse have cache of currently opened files? [message #1785818 is a reply to message #1785800]

Fri, 20 April 2018 05:50

Eclipse User

Eclipse does maintain local history for each file you save, i.e., the previous version before the save, so you can do things like Compare With -> Local History from the context menu, but this history is stored in the workspace somewhere under <workspace>/metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.history/*/*... but given that it sounds like your workspace itself was likely on the D: drive, that might not be helpful at all. :-(

Re: Need to salvage my code. Does eclipse have cache of currently opened files? [message #1786109 is a reply to message #1785818]

Wed, 25 April 2018 13:21

Eclipse User

Just for future reference, I have been dealing with some code taken off the Internet that tends to put WindowBuilder into an infinite loop, so I have sometimes had a couple of projects hollowed out (nothing I created being left). For that and for reasons of cached information with previous projects sometimes causing trouble, every time I get a step forward I copy the project and make a new version. If I really get a breakthrough I archive the new version to a separate directory.

I am on a Mac so I can use Time Machine to recover a file from months back (how far back depending on capacity of that second HD).

I suggest you start something like that. There may be a way on your computer to set up the kind of system wherein copies of files are kept on two disks at the same time, i.e., RAID..

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