Literally all of my code disappeared [discord.js]

[Saddy]

For the past three days I spent a total of 24 hours working on a discord bot, only for me to open it and have everything gone. It is literally blank. All my other code is still there, just my main code with everything in it is gone. Anyone know any way to get it back before I 

[Nuluvius]

2 minutes ago, Saddy said:

For the past three days I spent a total of 24 hours working on a discord bot, only for me to open it and have everything gone. It is literally blank. All my other code is still there, just my main code with everything in it is gone.

That's why you should be using source control...

[zwirek2201]

Don't write anything to disk, run something jak EaseUs Data Recpvery and pray to computer gods. Next time use git or at least cloud.

[Saddy]

 I had no backup as I was going to configure that tonight

[Saddy]

Well I'm going to go cry in a corner for a few hours, and then make another bot. 

[Zando_]

9 minutes ago, Saddy said:

Well I'm going to go cry in a corner for a few hours, and then make another bot. 

And we still need a hug emoji.... the sad face of "I feel ya bro" will have to do: 

[Cruorzy]

Dont do shit, till you learn Git..

[zwirek2201]

2 hours ago, Saddy said:

Well I'm going to go cry in a corner for a few hours, and then make another bot. 

I very recently lost my whole database with about 30 tables and many views and stored procedures so I feel ya bro. Now I'm running a custom script that backs up my database every time I turn on my PC and uploads every single version to the cloud. Yes, it's an overkill and no, I ain't loosing this shit second time. It took me multiple days to restore it from the code that was accessing it in the application. It was a pain in the ass let me tell ya. 

 

32 minutes ago, Cruorzy said:

Dont do shit, till you learn Git..

Can't agree more. It's not as difficult as it seems and can save your ass many, many times.

 

[trag1c]

@Nuluvius Speaks the truth. Source control is your life line as a programmer. Git, SVN, Perforce, even simply backing up files after every iteration is better than nothing.

[Fetzie]

5 hours ago, Cruorzy said:

Dont do shit, till you learn Git..

Or even just make a copy of stuff if you can't be bothered learning git / svn / any other VCS

[Cruorzy]

10 hours ago, Fetzie said:

Or even just make a copy of stuff if you can't be bothered learning git / svn / any other VCS

Thing is you still might have huge gaps of missing code if not saved for a while, if you learn yourself  to commit and push on a regular bases.

You will be alot safer.

[Nuluvius]

10 hours ago, Fetzie said:

Or even just make a copy of stuff if you can't be bothered learning git / svn / any other VCS

If you 'can't be bothered learning' (especially how to do things properly) then I'd strongly suggest that writing software is not something that you should be spending your time doing. I'd suggest that you go and find something that you can be bothered to do and expend your efforts there instead.

 

I shall reiterate then for the sake of clarity; this is terrible advice.

Just now, Cruorzy said:

commit and push on a regular bases

Indeed and the most optimal strategy is to make small granular commits of work.

[Cruorzy]

@Nuluvius Be easy on him  But can't agree more to learn a VCS.

 

@Saddy

Actually git is quite fun when you work alone specially and dont have to worry about merge conflicts that often etc.

 

It will give you fun stats like how many commits you did etc, overview of everything you did. 

 

For example i find fun to look at is when im doing most of the work as a (hobby script kiddie).

With bitbucket there is a punchcard snap in, there you can see that i am useless in the morning and midday its alrighty. Mostly in the evening i would be Gaming and between PUBG deaths do some work. Looks like i die hell alot.

 

[Fetzie]

8 hours ago, Nuluvius said:

If you 'can't be bothered learning' (especially how to do things properly) then I'd strongly suggest that writing software is not something that you should be spending your time doing. I'd suggest that you go and find something that you can be bothered to do and expend your efforts there instead.

 

I shall reiterate then for the sake of clarity; this is terrible advice.

Indeed and the most optimal strategy is to make small granular commits of work.

Simply having a copy would have been useful though (I mirror my local stuff to a second drive so that I have a backup even if the Internet goes down or I have a git brainfart). Especially if you have not yet set up said vcs.

 

Also, I never fucking said that the OP should not use a vcs so you can cut the high and mighty attitude.

[Nuluvius]

2 hours ago, Fetzie said:

Simply having a copy would have been useful though (I mirror my local stuff to a second drive so that I have a backup even if the Internet goes down or I have a git brainfart).

Nothing should be kept locally at all and indeed never in one place for that matter. My own personal strategy, which is very similar to my workplace strategy, is to keep everything on a NAS with one disk fault tolerance which is backed up and asymmetrically replicated to the cloud. Each client is kept as thin as is possible i.e. only session data and any granular uncommitted pieces of code or work. My network is also partitioned in such a way as to protect against incursions and also to minimise damage in the event that one does occur. If any client were to go down for any reason then there's virtually no data loss and the downtime is very minimal.

1 hour ago, Fetzie said:

Especially if you have not yet set up said vcs.

Nothing of value should be done without it, it's that simple.

1 hour ago, Fetzie said:

Also, I never fucking said that the OP should not use a vcs

No you didn't. What you did say however was:

21 hours ago, Fetzie said:

if you can't be bothered learning

Which is far worse since it suggests that it's alright to simply not bother doing things properly.

 

And then the obnoxious noises that you made:

1 hour ago, Fetzie said:

so you can cut the high and mighty attitude.

Only serve to further compound your complacency and ignorance on the subject.

[Fetzie]

Anyway, to get back to answers to @Saddy 's OP (who asked how they can maybe recover the lost data), this is a great piece of software: https://www.piriform.com/recuva

 

It has an option to install it on a USB stick to avoid writing to drive sectors that could contain files. The free edition can get pushy about upgrading to the paid version, but I have had great success recovering "lost" files with it in the past.

[Saddy]

I'm glad to see that an entire flame war as started on this forum. Anyway for a moderator to lock this? I do not wish to receive any more posts.

[Saddy]

Also if any of you actually read my posts, you would see that I said that I was going to make a git backup that night. I knew that I needed to do it and I was going to, but it got corrupted before I could.

 

(I am looking at you @Cruorzy, as I thought I made myself clear that I knew about it and just didn't do it yet, and was asking if there was a way how to get it back. Thank you for your response though)

[Nuluvius]

3 hours ago, Saddy said:

Also if any of you actually read my posts, you would see that I said that I was going to make a git  backup that night.

Did you read your own posts?

On 15/08/2017 at 4:07 PM, Saddy said:

 I had no backup as I was going to configure that tonight

Because you certainly don't mention Git anywhere...

[Cruorzy]

14 hours ago, Saddy said:

Also if any of you actually read my posts, you would see that I said that I was going to make a git backup that night. I knew that I needed to do it and I was going to, but it got corrupted before I could.

 

(I am looking at you @Cruorzy, as I thought I made myself clear that I knew about it and just didn't do it yet, and was asking if there was a way how to get it back. Thank you for your response though)

Just make sure you have your arguments right if you want to call me out for trying to inform you about something while you dont mention it, because you never mentioned git anywhere like @Nuluvius said. even after reading your 2 posts after it it wasnt clear for me that you were making a GIT backup.

 

Anyways i hope you got your code back or are on the right tracks again,since you are using git. Make regular pushes so it doesn't happen again