Raible Designs

Monday November 10, 2003

Need to recover deleted files on OS X OK, I'm an idiot. I had a symlink in /Users/mraible/Sites that pointed to my application's prototype directory. This was called Sites/appname -> /Users/mraible/dev/appname/prototype. I wanted to change the symlink, and instead of doing "rm appname" - I did "rm -r appname/" - I tabbed-completed it and hit return. So I deleted all the files for the prototype I've been developing. The worst part? My new gig has not set me up with VPN Access (for CVS), so I haven't checked in any of these files. I work from home on Friday and Mondays - and I was just beginning the prototype on Thursday. I thought I'd be able to get the HTML files from the prototype directory, but no luck yet. I have DiskWarrior and when I boot from my iPod and "repair" my hard drive - I get errors at the end and I can't "Preview" the changes. I don't even know if DiskWarrior will work, so I downloaded Virtual Lab and tried it. It doesn't seem to have a setting for HTML files (except for "Microsoft Internet Explorer HTML", which is probably *.htm files).

Even more frustrating is I "should've" had a backup. I just got on a kick last night to make backups of all my machines. I was able to backup Linux (using tar) just fine, but the "Backup" program on OS X kept giving me errors and I gave up after a while. I continue to search for a solution to recover the deleted files - any advice appreciated.

Update: I found the file I spent the most time developing and was able to restore it. How? Certainly not any fancy tools. Just a little searching in Safari's Cache. Apparently it was the only one I opened via an http:// URL - the others I opened with file:// and I don't think it caches those. Posted in Mac OS X at Nov 10 2003, 07:03:01 PM MST 4 Comments

Why I don't use My Eclipse IDE I don't use My Eclipse IDE because I can't. It won't install on Windows XP with the latest JDK (error: "Can't launch executable. Could not load jvm.dll."). Apparently, it's not their fault, it's ZeroG's fault. If I was motivated enough, I could install an older version of the JDK (i.e. 1.4.1), but then I'd have to hack my registry to get the JRE back to 1.4.2. I'll pass - if I can't even install it, it's probably not worth my time.

All the other Eclipse plugins are distributed as zip files that you expand into the plugins directory - why can't this one work the same way? Posted in Java at Nov 10 2003, 10:13:27 AM MST 6 Comments