Accidentally deleted my plugin source

[Joshua Fontany]

Hi everyone...

I was packing up a plugin with the browser command (while running via tiddkyserver) and it seems to have deleted all my plugins files from disk (but did not create the plugin tiddler).

So.... I didn't have any backup (*shoots self*) Am I out of luck? Is there any way to recover this at all?

Really appreciate any help.

Josh F

[Joshua Fontany]

Ugh. Why did I try to package it before pushing to github...

I am currently running a recovery program deep scan on the drive (recuva).... but the tiddler files didn't have the .text extension and it'll takeover an hour. Crossing my fingers as I go get dinner.

[Joshua Fontany]

Oh... never include your root plugin tiddler's title in your list of plugin tiddlers in the make plugin console command. That's what nuked it. :(

[Joshua Fontany]

Hahaha. I actually recovered it all (unfragmented) by manually searching my harddrive with a hex editor. Things in my favor:

* Text content
* Small individual tiddler file sizes (<3)
* Repeating simple text headers.

I searched for "$:/plugins/<myname>" and it took a few hours (and SO MANY F3 key presses) to find all the files and copy the contents to new text files.

Wow... I might have something cool to share soon. Let me back this the hell up and then debug a bit.

:D

[TonyM]

Glad to hear, and thanks for sharing. 

Tony