WHOOPS - lost source code...

[ITfromZX81]

Hey all,

Well, I've done it - I lost the source code to a Delphi program I was working on - I have all the EXEs but I had two hard drive crashes in close succession and everything else was backed up except for the source to this program.
[I kind of can't believe this as I've got copies of everything else and I was sure I had a backup of this also but apparently not]

Any ideas other than starting over?

Thanks,

 

[Zathras]

There are businesses that specialize in recovering data from crashed drives -- for a fee.

 

[ITfromZX81]

Not the one Zathras, not the one(grin)

[can't really afford that option]

 

[whosrdaddy]

your out of luck then.

only thing you can do is to reverse engineer your own program, extract your form resources and start all over again.

http://delphi.about.com/od/devutilities/a/decompiling_3.htm

/Daddy

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[sggaunt]

Use a tool like Winhex to get byte level access to your drive, you may well be able to recover at least part of your text. The demo version is a free download, so it wont cost you anything!!


Steve [The sane]: Delphi a feersum engin indeed.

 

[ndaru]

You can only reverse-engine the forms but not source code. But that's the case with Delphi 3 and 5. I don't know about the rest (never have the need to find out), but I think it's still the same. Otherwise, everyone will reverse-engine your .exe and that would be undesirable.

http://www.freetechbooks.com

 

[roo0047]

That happened to me over a year ago. I only lost the last the last revision level, but that was enough to lose a contract because I could not deliver on time. Since then, I keep all of by development source on a 4G flash drive. They are cheep when you consider the alternative.

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