Salvage deleted project?

[Jevon, Graham]

Hi all

 

Is there any way to salvage a project that was accidentally deleted by clicking the “X” on the “Open Project” page? It doesn’t appear to be in the Windows recycle bin. Assuming there is no manual backup, is there any way that this project can be retrieved?

 

Thanks

 

Graham

 
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Think before you print

[Thad Guidry]

Hi Graham,

It's a finality when you delete from the OpenRefine project view. (We do give you 1 popup to confirm and then the project file is deleted on the harddrive and its reference removed from the workspace.json.

The only way to recover a delete like this is if you run an undelete or recovery program. 2 open source solutions I can recommend are:

Freerecover https://sourceforge.net/projects/freerecover/

Kickass Undelete https://sourceforge.net/projects/kickassundelete/

In particular, Freerecover should help here and you could type in the OpenRefine workspace path (Ex. "C:\Users\thadg\AppData\Roaming\OpenRefine") that you were using and it should show the deleted files to recover.

Once it's recovered, immediately make a copy of the recovered project folder in your workspace.

Then start OpenRefine which should recognize it and add it back to the workspace.json and your project view automatically.

Thad

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[Jevon, Graham]

Thanks Thad, that’s really helpful.

 

I’m just waiting my organisation’s technology department to approve download of the software. Do you know if there is any time limit for recovering files like this?

 

Thanks

 

Graham

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[Thad Guidry]

It's seconds to a few minutes to recover when you know the exact path/folder of where the files were prior to deletion.

Thad

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