   .cpp's and .h's lost.... recovery options?
  Oh lord.MSVCPP 2008 Professional, my compiler, was doing some funny business and had to be ended manually (it wasn't compiling at the time or anything, I just had it open from a day ago and it froze up). I was going to show my friend some coding I had been doing, and it wouldn't load my project. I looked in my folder only to find .... everything but 1 .cpp gone. Out of probably about 50 .cpp and .h's total.... The folder also contained all of my pixel art, but I'd give that up if I could have the project back.Please tell me someone knows what this is about, and that I can recover this somehow. I have .obj's of all the corresponding .h's and .cpp's, in my debug folder, as well as a compiled .exe in the debug folder as well. Please please please tell me I can get my project back. It's something I've been working on for about two years, on and off, I don't know what I'd do...I don't have a recycling bin by the by. I haven't seen any sort of temporary back-up files made by MSVCPP, oh lord.   
  If worse comes to worst, you could always decompile to ASM and convert to C++... I would bet there's a better way though.   ;  try running a program such as this: http://www.officerecovery.com/freeundelete/   ;  Sorry to hear that happen mate. Try and download a trial of tuneup utilities 2008 i think, and it has a undelete thing, and maybe, maybe it will still have it as long as you didn't write over that part of the hard drive. Its worth a shot. But usually when Visual Studio crashes and you open it up it will let you recover your files :S.   ;  i sent you a PM   ;  Hey there... just wanted to thank you guys for the fast help, I really appreciate it. I hadn't thought of a professional recovery program. Here's the beautiful thing though:I was teaching a friend of mine to program, and I just realized after I had calmed down that I had copied all of my code onto a flash drive for him to look at. I called him and he still has it... -_- *relief*Sorry to like, freak out and stuff. If I wasn't lucky enough to have done that though, I can't even imagine.. anyone know a good backup utility? Something to just periodically back up a specified folder? I think there's a lesson here for me.   ;  If your going to program in any serious fashion you need to do source control, get a freeware program like CVS or Subversion. There are some niffty plugin which plug directly into the visual studio IDE so it makes using those a snap.-ddn   ;  For some reason it was really satisfying to me to know you've recovered it. I know what you felt.;Quote:Original post by ddn3If your going to program in any serious fashion you need to do source control, get a freeware program like CVS or Subversion. There are some niffty plugin which plug directly into the visual studio IDE so it makes using those a snap.-ddn*slap*One of the biggest misassumptions and affronts to a dev of free software is what you just said ;)cvs and subversion are free software, not freeware. i sentence you to write down "freeware != free software" a 100 times.freewarefree softwaregratis / libre;  Well it's freeware too, by definition (since it's free of charge).Anyways, you really should use version control. I recommend Subversion. You can do it locally or on a server (there are plenty of free ones for open source projects, but if it's proprietary you really should set up your own).   