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Recover .java-files after computer crash? [message #300690] Wed, 15 March 2006 12:22 Go to next message
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Originally posted by: tommy.torwald.gmail.com

Recently, I was working on a current project, and my computer broke down.
Blue screened. When I turned it back on, starting eclipse, I realised that
the .java I was working on was swiped clean. Or, more specifically, all of
the content was replaced by small unreadable squares.

I HOPE that these squares represent something very significant - my old
file. Is there any way to get the content back? If not, I have wasted sooo
many hours, so I'd really appreciate some help.

/Tommy Torwald
Re: Recover .java-files after computer crash? [message #300691 is a reply to message #300690] Wed, 15 March 2006 12:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: eclipse.bettsockentraeger.de

Try restore local history if that wasn't destroyed during the crash.

Other thing is try looking at the file with another editor (e.g.
TextPad) and see if it can read the file. The squares could indicate a
wrong coding or a problem reading it as UTF-8.

For future - install a version control system on your local system or
better on some server .

Tommy Torwald wrote:
> Recently, I was working on a current project, and my computer broke
> down. Blue screened. When I turned it back on, starting eclipse, I
> realised that the .java I was working on was swiped clean. Or, more
> specifically, all of the content was replaced by small unreadable squares.
>
> I HOPE that these squares represent something very significant - my old
> file. Is there any way to get the content back? If not, I have wasted
> sooo many hours, so I'd really appreciate some help.
>
> /Tommy Torwald
>
Re: Recover .java-files after computer crash? [message #300777 is a reply to message #300690] Fri, 17 March 2006 02:11 Go to previous message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: varavamu.yahoo.com

look at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/savedirtyeditor
this was inspired by another newsgroup post. There is also a bug:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=34076 which is supposed to
track incorporation of this functionality into the core eclipse.

thanks,
Vijay

Tommy Torwald wrote:
> Recently, I was working on a current project, and my computer broke
> down. Blue screened. When I turned it back on, starting eclipse, I
> realised that the .java I was working on was swiped clean. Or, more
> specifically, all of the content was replaced by small unreadable
> squares.
>
> I HOPE that these squares represent something very significant - my
> old file. Is there any way to get the content back? If not, I have
> wasted sooo many hours, so I'd really appreciate some help.
>
> /Tommy Torwald
>
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