I am new to git and to Xcode, and mac in general, so here's my question
I accidentally added my whole desktop to a project i was working on. When I wanted to delete the files, Xcode asked me if I wanted to delete them from disk and I said yes. The problem is that the project itself was in a folder inside my desktop and it took out everything. I had not committed my changes in the git local branch. Is there any way to undo what I did?
I appreciate whatever help I can get.
If you have not committed, Git cannot help you bring back your project. You will have to look at other alternatives ( like TimeMachine if you had it setup? )
If anyone's experiencing trouble with this problem, I nearly went back in my project and changed everything all over again but then remembered that it may not have been legit deleted yet. That is all to say that you should CHECK YOUR TRASH first! I don't know why it didn't occur to me until awhile after I had accidentally deleted it, but I ended up finding it in the Trash, so I'm thankful for that. Hope I've saved someone a whole lot of trouble!
Stop using the HDD immediately. Get Data Recovery help. Top of the line Data Recovery services may charge 1K-3K but can do an amazing job. Worth trying if your job is on the line.
Also, don't lose heart. Doing it the second time (if it comes to that) will take much shorter time than the original one.
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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.
A couple of people have asked a similar question, the last one a year ago, with no solution (Here and here), so I thought I'd try it again.
I've created snapshots in Xcode 5.1 on a few occasions before making significant code changes. When I go to restore them, I've seen a couple of different behaviors:
There's one file that changed. Xcode shows me the before and after diffs, and I say OK, and click on Restore. The result, nothing's changed.
Same as one, except in this case there are multiple files that have changed. It shows me one, and it looks good. So I click Restore. It doesn't show me any of the other files diffs that have changed, and it doesn't prompt me to be sure I don't want to look at them. After the fact, I've surmised that I need to click on each changed files in order to accept the changes. But still, there's only one Restore button, which dismissed the window. In any case, none of the files have been restored to their former state. If I try to restore from that same snapshot again (naively thinking I could try to retrieve the other changed files), it tells me that the current state and the snapshot are the same.
If I export the changes to another directory, then I do get the reverted files. It's when I do a File->Restore Snapshot where I get no results.
I've taken to manually creating zip archives of the source so I can recover the files manually.
I don't have any Source Control in use in Xcode so far. It seems I should do that if only to do periodic commits on my own.
Do other people use snapshots successfully? Has anyone else experienced this behavior in Xcode 5?
Thanks much for your help. I've yet to get any response on the Apple Developers Forum on the topic :(
-Eric
I inadvertantly did a very stupid thing last night. I have been working on an iPad project for a couple of months and (even more stupidly) do not have a backup. By right-clicking on the project in XCODE, I mistakenly clicked "Discard Changes"
(stupidity reigns again) I did not have any commits since the initial and when I did the Discard Changes, it seems that it went all the way back to the initial commit, which if I am looking at things correctly looks like each file is as it was the very first time it was saved.
My question is: Is there a way to recover my work? Is it in the .git directory? Is a copy stored elsewhere? or as a last resort, any chance to recover some of the source text with an un-delete utility?
Thanks,
Bob
For little clarification.. one can put back files from the trash as discard changes sends the file in the trash
Answer copied from How to undo xcode discard all changes if not committed
Quit Xcode.
Open the file you wish to bring back your lost changes to using TextEdit.
Go to File -> Revert To -> Browse All Versions...
Scroll through the available versions. Hopefully you will have many available to choose from.
Select a version and hit Restore.
Follow 1-5 for all necessary files.
Launch Xcode. You should now see the M next to these files in Project Navigator indicating they include uncommited changes (the changes you previously discarded).
Completely new files you may have created and were discarded can be found in the Trash.
Also a small piece of advice. If you are in need to discard changes, prefer using Source Control -> Discard Changes by right clicking on files in the Project Navigator, instead of Discard All Changes which might give you all kinds of trouble.
Have a nice day. :)
Well luck was on my side after all. As it turns out, when I did the Source Control > Discard Changes operation, it did not make any changes to the source code save in my project directory. I was able to start a new project and added the files back in. Once I did that I was able to compile and run my project in the simulator just as it was before the incident. I now have a backup as well as committed the changes in git.
You have a hope of fetching this code if you "pushed" & committed your prior-to-discarded changes into your local git repository. Or if you're using MacOS's included Time Machine or some other automated backup solution.
Aside from that, you might be hosed.
If you're on Lion or later, you may have Time Machine backups even if you don't have an external drive. As of Lion, Time Machine will take 'local snapshots' of files; this is how they support the "Versions" feature that lets you go back to previous versions of your files.
If you didn't have Time Machine turned on, though... you may be out of luck.
I seem to have a major problem. I opened up Xcode and my main view controller code seems to have been replaced with the original code, it's all gone. All my other files have the little 'M' for modified icon next to them, this problem file however does not. It seems like it's gone back to the original version.
Now, Can I go back to my modified version, or is it all gone? This is a for a test app so although not crucial, I'd really prefer to not lose it all :)
Thanks
Just putting an answer here as I hate to leave things with no answers. Dropbox sorted my problem as I had a backup copy of everything, and I am yet to find out what went wrong. I'm now using a combination of Dropbox and a GIT repo to keeps things save.
Question: Today I worked with MS Visual Sourcesafe, that is to say Microsoft's Sourcecode destruction system, which has never ever saved anything, but already destroyed much.
Today I had one more of those nasty destructive episodes:
I was working on a reporting service report (*.rdl xml files).
I was modifiying a report, so I created a copy and modified it.
The original being named FILENAME.rdl
My modified copy being named FILENAME2.rdl
I finished, saved. Checked in.
It was all correct.
I switched offline, continued to work.
Later on, I deleted filename.rdl, and renamed filename2.rdl to filename.rdl
I continued working for the rest of the day offline.
In the evening I checked in, and filename2.rdl reappeared.
I thought it had copied the old version back, so I deleted filename.rdl (from local computer and sourcesafe, via the delete keyboard button in the visual studio treeview) and wanted to rename filename2.rdl again to filename.rdl.
When I tried, I realized that filename2.rdl was just an entry that appeared in the treevieww, but not on disk... It was in that very momement that I realized that I now have a problem...
I looked in the recycle bin, but nothing there.
I tried 5 different undelete programms, and shadow copy explorer [to find out that non C drive data - such as the data partition e - is not backed up by the shadow copy service automatically...], but no luck. The file is gone.
Is it possible to still retrieve the file from sourcesafe, or does it get permanently removed when one presses the delete button in VisualStudio treeview and clicks OK on deleting it from file & sourcesafe ?
So far I found this one:
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;244019&x=11&y=7
but from that it is unclear whether the file is gone.
The problem is if it isn't there, I should redo the about one hour work this evening, because tomorrow will be a busy day.
There are 2 levels of Delete in SourceSafe. When you delete the file, if you check the "Destroy permanently" option, the file will not be recoverable. Otherwise, you can go to the Properties of its parent project and recover it later.
If it's not stored under some different version or branch of your code, I think you're out of luck.
Regardless, however: you estimate this is one hour's worth of work. You already (presumably) spend some amount of time (probably an hour or two) trying to get the file back. Are you not now at the point where, even if VSS has a way to get your file back for you, you'd be better served just rebuilding it?
Short answer - definitely NO!
It can't! I tried.
But it overwrote the recreated report with a completely wrong recovered version...
Fortunately, I've forseen this, and made a backup copy of the recreated report for this case.
So I didn't spend that one hour of recreating the report in vain.
This program should be forbidden, with noncompliance to this prohibition being subject to the death penalty.