I'M an Idiot and deleted some forms and modules, how do i recover them

[fugly]

I accidently deleted some forms and modules from project file. Since then, I have also emptyed the recycle bin. Is there anyway to get these back? I remember scanreg restore from Win98, but I am using Win 2000,can I still do that. I don't mind data loss when compared to the possibility of starting over from scratch.

I do have copy of the package and deployment executable. Is it possible to extract files from the cab file?

Is it possible to decompile the executable I made and recover these files?

Please save my buns...

 

[jebenson]

Did you delete the references to the files from the VB project, or did you delete the actual files (.frm, .bas, etc.) from the project directory?

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[fugly]

I had the actual files on the desktop and the project in an appropriate directory. I deleted the actual files aand not the references. When the project starts, i says it cannot find the file files...

Thanks

 

[chadt]

ummm.....doesn't your company perform a nightly backup of the network?

 

[CCLINT]

You will need to get an Undelete or UnErase program, or even a disk editor, something like ones from Norton or Fix-It Utilities.

The files should still be there on the drive, or at least partially, if you haven't done any large amounts of copying data, defrag, scan disk, installations, etc.

So basically I'm saying: Don't do anything on that drive until you recover the files, otherwise the space which they occupy may get written over!

And, run the Utility from the CD or floppy.


>I do have copy of the package and deployment executable. Is it possible to extract files from the cab file?

Yes, but not the forms and modules

>Is it possible to decompile the executable I made and recover these files?
No, not really.

 

[fugly]

i thought those programs only worked if you had them installed BEFORE you messed up and not after. What about using scan reg and restoring to s successful boot copuple of days ago. Will they still be deleted or will they be where they used to be?

 

[fugly]

OK, Tried the undelete, did not work...what else can I do?

 

[chadt]

ummmm.....restore from backup.....oh...i bet you didn't backup on a regular basis.....i think your screwed.....sorry dude

 

[CCLINT]

>OK, Tried the undelete,...

Which Undelete program? How did you run it?

 

[chadt]

hey...you wasted your cash with undelete. You can only undelete files that were deleted after undelete was put on the workstation.

 

[CCLINT]

An UnErase program like Norton, (or using a Disk Editor if possible), will ALSO search for the deleted files directly off of the drive, with-out the need of a Recycled or protected folder or whatever.
It doesn't need to be installed prior to the files being deleted.

 

[strongm]

>You can only undelete files that were deleted after undelete was put on the workstation

This is inaccurate.

 

[chadt]

This is not inaccurate. This is the truth......Im speaking of Undelete not nortons or anything else but Undelete must be installed before the files are deleted to get them back. Even call undelete if you don't believe me.

 

[strongm]

<sigh> Just because one specific undelete product only works this way does not mean that this is true of all of them. Nor does the presence or otherwise of such a limited undelete program (whichever one it is that you are thinking of) prevent use of an alternative tool that is not so limited.

 

[CasperTFG]

I think he was talking about the product called &quot;undelete&quot;.

http://www.r-tt.com/RUndelete.shtml.

It's now called R-Undelete, but I think that this was jsut a confusion on what Chadt was talking about


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[CCLINT]

I think you what was meant is:

&quot;You can only undelete files with the Undelete program that were deleted after the Undelete program was put on the workstation&quot;

And where the Undelete program mentioned is a specific Undelete program.

The first statement was inaccurate though, as stated. (In this case, it is not a matter of being &quot;picky&quot;, but avoiding confusion to others who read this thread)

 

[chadt]

well...first the real undelete is by executive software...

http://www.executive.com/undelete/undelete.asp

everything else people are mentioning are undelete programs but not called Undelete. And with the executive software undelete it has to be on the workstation first.

 

[bahakh]

You can do the following, remove your hard drive from ur machine, connect as secondary to another machine, install on good recovery program on the hard drive of the new machine (not ur hard drive), and then recover all the data that you have on the hard drive (because the data mightbe there, but the pointers to it are removed).. As u mentioned in the beggining you might loose some other information or the operating system.

NOTE: this solution won't help if you used defrag or moved alot of data on your hard drive like one of the guys mentioned before (unless u r VERRRRRRRRRY lucky)..

Good Luck

 

[strongm]

And with Executive Software's offering what does the Emergency Undelete utility do?

 

[fugly]

OK, decided to cut my losses and recreate everything I lost. Luckly it was on the forms and the modules were intact. Thanks for all your help. I learned a valuable lesson!