Re: HELP!How to recover .f file from exsting .o or bin file?


Richard Maine wrote:
Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kk288@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

zuying@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I must say, I'm a moron, I deleted all my .f files and its baks by
accident, now only those .o object file and compiled bin file exists,
how can I recover the original .f file? Thanks very much!! I'm in
despair.....


Others have already told you how this is not possible in general...

In future, I strongly suggest using some version control system (like
subversion) which provides an inherent backup for all your codes along
with revision history. This has saved my work a lot of times.

Plus, of course, a system backup to a separate disk (or other medium,
but external disk is my current medium of choice for home use
considering cost, convenience, and other factors).

I can't count the number of times I've seen people bemoaning lost data
files, sometimes explaining that it was something really valuable to
them personally (a thesis), or even with high monetary value. Sometimes
they can be helped; sometimes not. Sometimes the help is expensive.
Clean-room disk recovery for physically broken drives is not cheap; it
can run over $10k in some cases, but I've seen people pay that. Disk
drives have moving parts. Even the best quality ones can have a unit
that failes early, and all will fail eventually. Not to speak of trauma
such as power surges, dropping, etc.

I've also heard an awful lot of people who seem to think that it won't
happen to them. Some of them argue this quite adamantly. By some
correlary of Murphy's law, the people who don't do backups seem to be
the ones most likely to need them.

--
Richard Maine | Good judgement comes from experience;
email: last name at domain . net | experience comes from bad judgement.
domain: summertriangle | -- Mark Twain

I must be too optimistic on my judgement. The source files are all on a
new remote machine where I newly moved to. At first, I have spent lots
of time on the version control in Emacs IDE and other simple backup
schemes just like in my home machine. But since the remote server seems
to be unpleasant with my configurations and it functioned very
strangely, thus I shut down all the related configurations and started
my project without any further concern on that.

Then, all of a sudden, the unforgivable mistake happened, it's very
lucky of me that my Emacs' working that time so that some recent files
are stored in the buffers.

so, I'm here as a bad paragon of not making regular backups or CVS.

.

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