I accidentally deleted a 200 line file I spent a whole day working on. Instead of hitting copy I hit paste and lost everything. Any way to restore it? There isn’t an undo button.
Project name: amused-playground.
File: app/util/tictactoe.js
It was up to date about 5 minutes ago.
Ctrl-Z is undo, so you could have done that right after the mistake.
I restored the file for you.
Hey Tim, really sorry but I did it again. Could you reset to about 5 minutes back again? My undo is broken.
Thanks and sorry again.
Okay, it’s back again.
Are you on a Mac? In that case, it’s Cmd+Z.
For those who are interested in how I restored the file - there’s a Git repository built into every project, and you can run Git commands from the command line. I did a git log to look at the last few commits, and then git diff <hash> to look at the changes in each one. In this case, the second-last commit had the tictactoe.js with code in it, instead of the empty version. So I ran git checkout <hash> util/tictactoe.js to restore only that file to the earlier version, and then refresh to tell the editor to reload the file from disk.
Hey Tim, i dont know if this will work or if you’ll see this but can you restore deleted files from glitch?
Hey there @lisxpereira, welcome to the Glitch community! In the future, please don’t bump old posts, instead you can create a new post with your question.
As for the question you asked, there is now a rewind feature. You can go to the tools section, then on top there should be a rewind button which you can click to restore a deleted file from your project.
help!!! I deleted a file name ar.html by mistake !!! Can you restore it??
I can see it with the rewind tool but cannot copy it!!!
Sorry for that… you save my life!!! File recovered!!! Yes!
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