Little hope to recover

Guys,

I had a HD crash and was able?? to recover some data. However, the contents of the file is rubbish:

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Anyone able to tell me if this can be reversed? Could this be an encoding problem?

Thanks in advance.

The content means your c# file has been overwritten by other data.

There is no (cheap) way to recover the previous data.

I think you now got a great reason to buy a NAS or online storage and shedule an automatic backup…

Wouter, bedankt.

Was worth a try :smiley:

Now I can start all over again. And no need to buy one, have already a 5TB protected storage array.

Thanks

Hopefully your new code is a bit more readable than the old stuff. You’d have to be a machine (or Gus) to understand the code you posted!

Hope the rewrite goes well!

no comments :smiley:

lol

Wow… that is a very poorly written class. You really need to use better naming conventions. Just a suggestion…

Pete