Recently I was writing a simple script (maybe 200 lines total), and I did something quickly, which I forgot what it was. But it deleted my script completely without trace!!! I may have accidentally pressed a bad key combination in Notepad2 or I don't know what happened. I ran the script. It ran without errors. It was finally working the way I wanted it. So, I closed the editor. And originally, I saved it on my desktop, and now it was gone. It wasn't in the Trash bin either. It was completely gone! How did it disappear in a flash? Have you ever had a similar experience where you worked on something and it mysteriously disappeared without a trace?

I have a program called Recuva which runs on Windows and looks for deleted files and tries to restore them. But it did not find the file I was looking for. I was really surprised, because usually if you just delete something and then immediately go to Recuva, it will find that file. And chances are it may still be able to restore it. But it couldn't even locate the file. So, my next thought was I'm going to open HxD which is a hex editor which can view files, memory, or disks. I selected the main hard drive, which is 2TB. And I thought, how am I going to find this script? I thought of a unique line which is something that appears in my script that likely does not appear anywhere else, and I typed that into search. I thought, this will take forever. But no! It found it within 1 minute, and I was able to salvage my script! It's a miracle!!! This is one reason why you don't want to encrypt your hard drive. Lol

( I guess, this post could be formatted as a question for vote, but I'm not sure. It's just something I thought of. Not really Perl related or PerlMonks website related, so I wasn't sure where to write this. )

In reply to Have you ever lost your work? by harangzsolt33

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