title: Intellij deleted my project files - how to recover?
body: <p>I was working on a project in Intellij when my laptop suddenly turned off completely(I unplugged the charger and apparently the battery loses contact if you move the computer). I'm sure I saved before unplugging. Now that I launch Intellij, I noticed several unpleasant changes:</p>
  
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  <li><p>The IDE doesn't remember recent projects; it didn't open my project straight up after I launched it as it usually did before.</p></li>
  <li><p>Project files are all gone, all that remains is an .iml file.</p></li>
  <li><p>The color theme changed back to white, even though I switched it to black.</p></li>
  <li><p>Most disturbingly, local history appears to be wiped, there's nothing there save for the .iml file. </p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>In the light of these circumstances, I have these questions:</p>
  
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  <li><p>What the hell happened? Why did all my files disappear? They were all saved, so how could they just vanish?</p></li>
  <li><p>Is there any way to recover them or did Intellij scrapped them so thoroughly they're gone?</p></li>
  </ol>