that moment when you accidently delete hundreds of hours of code

[Subpixel]

So I have a habit of using Shift + Delete to permanently delete items... I meant to delete two folders, but accidently pressed shift instead of control when selecting and deleted a very important add-on.

It's not in the recycle bin obviously, is it lost forever? :(

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[awesomebread]

ctrl+Z?

[Subpixel]

ctrl+Z?

I already navigated away before noticing.

[Night Fox]

google sure is nice

[Char]

It's not in the recycle bin obviously, is it lost forever? :(

Maybe you can download some data recovery program if such a thing exists?
Since when a computer deletes stuff, I think it just marks all the bytes as able to be overwritten instead of clearing it out, or something.

[.:FancyPants:.]

Maybe you can download some data recovery program if such a thing exists

the problem is downloading the program over what you deleted, which i did to an extremely important homework project once.

[Char]

the problem is downloading the program over what you deleted, which i did to an extremely important homework project once.

download onto a usb stick or sd card and run from there?
you could change the browser settings to download directly onto the usb stick or sd card or whatever

[/Pacha]

download onto a usb stick or sd card and run from there?
you could change the browser settings to download directly onto the usb stick or sd card or whatever

or just

right click -> save link as

[Pah1023]

Another problem is something overwriting the file, such as browser history, etc.
You might be able to get a good bit of it back, I've been thinking about downloading a recovery program just in case something like this happens to me.

[devildogelite]

Why would you ever only keep one copy of several hundred hours of code.  I keep multiple copies of my class projects and those only take a few hours at most.

[Frankie²]

http://www.piriform.com/recuva

[Steve5451²]

I feel you bro.

[Zeblote]

Now you know why you use version control when working on large projects...

[Port]

Now you know why you use version control when working on large projects...

What if you have no remotes? Everything will be deleted anyway.