[ILUG] Someone made a booboo - Call for help

[David Golden]

On Fri 02 Jan 2004 15:44, Richard Eibrand wrote:

>
> AKAIK, he was using nedit to edit the file, which proceeded to have a
> sh**fit after he tried the compilation (and is still troubling him)... and
> no he didnt have the incremental backup option enabled...
>

Still troubling him?  If he continued using the machine after the incident, 
AFAIK there's very little chance of any of the undeletion tools other people 
have pointed to working, I'm afraid.  One really needs to stop, unmount the 
filesystem, and run the undeletion tool ASAP.

Re: nedit autobackup, which AFAIK defaults to on - did he really manually 
disable it? Silly.  Nedit defaults to keeping a backup in filename "~name.c" 
(yes the tilde is at the other end of the name to emacs, e.g. say if the file 
is in your home dir, you might use a silly looking  "~/\~name.c" to access 
it.)

If nedit had a sh**fit it  might well be because the incrementally updated 
backup that it keeps in ~name.c++ suddenly stopped corresponding to 
name.c++ while it was running - e.g. if he ran the g++ command line in another 
window.
http://www.nedit.org/help/recovery.shtml#Crash_Recovery


All in all though, it's the kind of mistake you make once and then stop 
making... Having said that, I'm a heretic that thinks that in this day and 
age of absurdly huge harddrives typical linux distro filesystems should think 
about built-in backup/versioning.