You can only imagine how frustrated I am, trying to go through my old computer finding where all the resources are and putting them on the new one.
Please tell me how I can, next time, prevent this from happening. When I copy files into Xcode, I actually want to copy them in there. Not just use the file location.
When adding files to a project you'll get asked if Xcodeshould copy them. If you allow that, they are copied. otherwise consider using a version control system, that allows you to clone your project on another computer.
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So recently, all files of a python project which I had been working on for weeks got accidentally deleted, and then I emptied my recycle bin, so it is gone now.I tried to "Restore Previous Versions" of the folder it was in in windows, but it said that there were no previous versions. So I tried using a disk drill to recover those files, but i could not even find them in the list of files that it came up with. So is there a different setting/configuration on disk drive which could be preventing me from recovering those files? Do I need to use another recovery software?Or is it going to be hard/impossible to recover the file? I have been working on this project for a long time, so any help would be hugely appreciated
If you do this on VSCode while using GIT. Recreate the file in the location you deleted it, then right click on the file and select file history. You should be able to restore most, if not all, of your data.
Just happened to me, figured this might help someone else in the future.
If you don't have any shadow copies to restore a previous version from, then speicalized undelete tools are your only hope. However, if the sectors containing the deleted files' contents have been overwritten since deleting them there is a chance all is lost.
This is a long one, but please, bear with me. I really need help here.
I use Eclipse (latest version) to play with some programs of my own. During installation (?), it asked me where I'd like to put in my Workspace folder. I set it to default, but, not wanting to dig through Documents and such (I have my own Documents folder on another drive), I made sure that every project I have is condensed into one "Projects" folder, not in the Workspace. My "Projects" folder contains every program I've coded so far, from C# to Java, as well as the necessary tools, like the Eclipse folder.
It worked fine for me, until I decided I want to do another project. So, I navigated to my "Projects" folder, and then created it there.
Now for some reason, Eclipse treated the directory I navigated to as my project folder. As in, new folders like bin, src, etc. started popping up in my otherwise organized folder. Visual Studio does not have this problem, and actually creates a new folder for your project under whatever directory you set it to.
So I, in a 'Monday blues' move, went into Eclipse and deleted my project. Eclipse wasted no time in deleting my entire "Projects" folder and everything in it - including itself, apparently. Gah.
I quickly closed Eclipse, but it kept saying something about 'Saving Workspace' which I assumed meant "Don't close me yet, I'm still deleting your files."
I thought I was being sensible when I terminated it via the Task Manager. It stopped deleting my stuff, but out of the dozen or so programs, I only managed to save three.
Wanting to start over again, I deleted (what's left of) my Eclipse, so I can 'install' it again, and let it have its way of where to create projects and save my files, so that this doesn't happen again. Unfortunately, one folder keeps returning no matter how many times I delete it. The aforementioned bin folder, a name that needs at least two adjectives and the suffix "Of the Damned."
So, to summarize:
I lost majority of my programs.
I lost my Eclipse.
And folder 'Bin' keeps popping up.
And so I'd like to ask:
Can I recover my files?
How can I setup Eclipse so that it creates a new project folder when I create a new project instead of treating the directory as the project folder?
How can I permanently get rid of that haunted Bin folder?
If anyone an help out here, thank you so much. This has easily been one of my worst Mondays.
As of now, I have tried:
Restarting my PC (didn't work, Bin Folder is still there)
Downloading and running a new copy of Eclipse (didn't work either)
I have struggles also on my Eclipse for the past few weeks. I answer each of your question below, hope that helps.
Can I recover my files? - If your programs are not physically removed from disk, you can add it back when you have your Eclipse running
How can I setup Eclipse so that it creates a new project folder when I create a new project instead of treating the directory as the project folder? - Create your project by clicking File->New->Android Application Project (if android). Then input the application name,etc. Click Next and uncheck create project in workspace, from there you can have your own location or directory of your project.
How can I permanently get rid of that haunted Bin folder? - In may case, I downloaded a fresh copy of Eclipse. I used the adt bundle which can be downloaded here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
the sad news is, that Eclipse does not just delete the projects into the bin, like it would happen with the "delete" by clicking on the folder and manually deleting it. You could try with recovery software, but it is not an assurance it will work, or recover all your lost data.
For the more of it, in the Bin folder that is made automatically in any Java project, you get compiled classes which are what gets packaged/archived into any jars that are created.(I hope this makes sense, I couldn't find a better way to explain myself.)
For the set-up of Eclipse I would have a look at the page of Eclipse, maybe a forum, or a FAQ is there.
I for instance use Netbeans, which does from the start always create a new folder for the new projects.
I hope I could somehow help!Here a little link to a recovery software that has a good reputation: http://www.piriform.com/recuva
Kind regards,
DomExtra edit: Version Control is an awesome tool to save your buttex from trouble like this ;)
I deleted default.png from my resources folder because I wanted a different image for the loading screen, but I just deleted the reference which was apparently a dumb thing to do. I dragged the new image into resources and tried to change the name to Default.png, but it won't let me, which I think is because the first Default.png is still in the repository somewhere. Anyway, how do I delete that image(and others with which I have probably done the same thing) from the repository when it is no longer visible in xcode?
What kind of repository is it? Subversion? Git?
The SCM integration in Xcode is great for checking out files and committing changes without having to leave the IDE, but it's hardly a full-blown GUI front end to either svn or git. It may be possible to fix your mistake by adding the file back to the project and then deleting it in Xcode in such a way that Xcode will remove it from the repository for you, but the simple solution is to just delete the file from the repository yourself by using the appropriate version control command. For example, if you're using Subversion you could:
svn remove default.png
to remove the file from your version of the repository. When you commit your changes, the file will be deleted in that version. (It'll still exist in previous versions -- that's the whole point of SCM, after all.)
After that, you can create the new file and add it to both the project and the repository in the usual way.
You need to manually go into your app's file structure and delete the image files themselves. Also, it is usually a good idea to "clean" the app whenever you remove files or references to files from an XCode project, since XCode can be a bit temperamental about removing files; the key combination for this is
Hope this fixes your problem.
Clean all targets should work (at least it worked for me). You can try the following:
a) delete the reference from "Copy Bundle resources" of your target
b) delete the app from Simulator/Device
c) clean all targets
Caleb is absolutely right. That fixed the problem here as well for the most files.
An easier way to get an overview of the accidentally un-deleted files, is creating a bookmark of the working copy with Versions (SVN Software - in case you use SVN). There you can detect the problematic files grafically and delete them. I always have to do this after restructuring the project folder.
I created an xcode project with the same name and I accidentally overwrote the old project. How do I get it back? All old source is gone and it isn't in the Trash. It has all been replaced with the new project template code.
If you have backups/source control, you can re-sync your old version.
Back up/shelve what you have now, and leave it checked out/on your system. Then, try to replace just the project file(s), leaving your source code and data in-place. Re-do the changes to your project(s), and you will have undone the damage.
If you don't have source control or backups, and you didn't delete your code/data, you may still be in luck. You'll have to re-create your project files from scratch, rather than your last save point, but you can simply import your existing code.
If you don't have any of those, and you deleted the source, then you are out of luck
No matter what, your next step is to get and use source control and/or start doing automatic backups of your code. Everyone makes mistakes like this, and this is why source control/backups exist. You must use them.
From the other discussion, it sounds like your best hope might be an OS X undelete utility, one example:
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
I hope you've not been doing much with the drive though as any file, email, or anything else you've saved to disk could have been overwriting what used to be there. But, it's better than doing nothing.
I would boot off a separate drive before you downloaded that to run it.
I'm using TFS to connect to codeplex.com. The source version of the project is messed up, and I want to replace it. Found a way to delete the project, but it won't let me delete it. How can I say delete all of the subprojects without deleting the representative folders on the hard drive?
Note: this is codeplex so I have limited issues.
Thanks.
If I understand the question correctly, you want to delete the folders on the server but not delete anything locally. You then want to re-add your code using what you have locally. Is that correct?
Possibly the easiest way to do this is to copy the code you have locally into a separate back-up folder on your desktop. Then perform a delete using Source Control Explorer in Visual Studio. Check-in the delete. Finally drag/drop the contents of your local back-up into Source Control Explorer (you need Visual Studio 2008 SP1 for drag/drop to work) so that it adds the appropriate files for you to.
Check the pending adds that you have to make sure all the files you want are included and no files you do not want (i.e. make sure any compilation outputs are not included and that the folder format in source control explorer is how you want it to be)
Once you are happy, check-in your adds.
Let me know if I didn't understand the question correctly.
I would recommend against doing that. TFS can get confused by deleting and re-adding. At least, that is the case if you have any branching & merging to do. If not... well, go ahead.