Hey Neil,
Thank you very much for commenting. I do appreciate it. I am running a recovery
file now... it will take ten hours, so I will have it running in the background
while I finish my project now because the professor gave me a one day
extension. I hope I do find it, but I am glad I understand why it happened now.
That was eating away at me.
On Saturday, February 27, 2016 at 1:00:26 PM UTC-5, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
> I'm sorry to hear about your project, but all might not be lost.
>
> If you haven't already, you can try deleted file recovery, since the
> file(s) contents may be still intact on your disk, and merely unlinked
> from their directory entries. The sooner you try to recover, before
> further writing to the disk, the better. If you have use of a second
> drive (that you can erase), and ideally a second (Linux) computer, you
> can make a raw image of the disk with the lost files, and then recover
> them at your leisure without risk of further writes to the disk
> overwriting the blocks of your file.
>
> I do see a `recover-file` procedure in
> "gui-lib/framework/private/autosave.rkt", which is deleting files that
> it thinks it no longer needs. Maybe it should be renaming the files
> instead of deleting, since already something has gone wrong, and data is
> at stake. I don't know whether this is the recovery operation you saw,
> but this is plausible evidence that the dog did eat your homework, if
> you need to talk with a teacher or coworkers about time to reconstruct
> lost work.
>
> Proactively, in the future, it's easy to forget while immersed in a
> project, but we have to try to remember to do frequent backups,
> especially when in a project crunch. This can means periodically
> checking in to an SCM system like Git, emailing the files to yourself,
> copying the files on the same disk ("myfile.c.backup-1",
> "myfile.c.backup-2") perhaps in a different directory, copying to a
> second disk on the laptop, copying to a removable USB drive you store
> physically separate from laptop (not to get stolen with same bag as
> laptop), doing a normal full machine backup, etc.
>
> Again, sorry to hear about your project, but I hope file recovery
> works. If it's any consolation, I think most people lose files in life,
> at one time or another, and some of us (including me) have done it in a
> much more spectacular and costly fashion than you might have, this time.
>
> Neil V.
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