Help with files deleted on publish visual studio

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Hello everyone, new guy here. Does anybody know how to recover files that were deleted on publishing a web page on visual studio? I selected the "Delete existing files" option in the Web Publish prompt, and I accidentally selected the folder of another VS project as the publishing folder, so it was deleted. How can I recover this folder? Thanks in advance and sorry for my bad English.

What I have tried:

Looking up in recycle bin, looking up in temp folder.

Posted 3-Jan-17 6:19am

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Updated 3-Jan-17 11:34am

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[no name] 3-Jan-17 12:35pm

You just learned the value of source control and making backups.

jgakenhe 3-Jan-17 13:04pm

It's gone forever. You'll need to redeploy the application that was overwritten, if it is production.

My suggestion to you is create a deployment process; so this never happens again.

I typically publish to file system (aka my computer) Each VS Project has its own profile (.publish) that saves that information for me. Then I use RoboCopy to copy to the destination, either test or prod. And most importantly, I use RoboCopy to create a backup. This way, if the deployment is screwed up, then I have a backup I can put back out there in seconds. There are new ways to do this, but RoboCopy has served me well.

YouTube has tutorials and examples

Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan 3-Jan-17 13:32pm

My virtual 5 to you. :-)

Maciej Los 3-Jan-17 15:04pm

And 5 from me!

jgakenhe 3-Jan-17 15:43pm

Thanks, I just went ahead and posted it so others don't read this unnecessarily.

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One of the way to recover files, is to use recovery tools. For example, below is given a list of free for non-commercial use tools:
UnDelete[^],
Active@ UNDELETE Freeware[^]
Recuva[^]
RedoBackup And Recovery[^]
etc.

Note: there's no 100% guaranty that you'll be able to restore all files and entire content. So, the method provided by jgakenhe[^] is probably the best way to protect yourself for unwanted or accidental deletion, malware or virus infection of files.

Good luck!

Posted 3-Jan-17 11:34am

Maciej Los

Updated 3-Jan-17 11:36am

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jgakenhe · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-03T09:42:00

It's gone forever. You'll need to redeploy the application that was overwritten, if it is production.

My suggestion to you is create a deployment process; so this never happens again.

I typically publish to file system (aka my computer) Each VS Project has its own profile (.publish) that saves that information for me. Then I use RoboCopy to copy to the destination, either test or prod. And most importantly, I use RoboCopy to create a backup. This way, if the deployment is screwed up, then I have a backup I can put back out there in seconds. There are new ways to do this, but RoboCopy has served me well.

YouTube has tutorials and examples.