Can I bring a file's content to previous version on NTFS partitioned drive?

[user1234]

I was trying the imppup64, and opened my main fossapup's save file from there. I don't know what happened...I didn't delete the contents of the save file, but somehow the save file got empty. I could not restore it. I thought that it might be something wrong with rox and just restarted. After I booted to my main puppy, I found that all the content of my save file had been lost. The worst part is that I don't even have a backup of my savefile, except for few files, and maybe my programmes' source code as well on github. But I don't think I had updated the repository. So I might have lost my latest changes to the important files as well.

Is there any way I can bring my savefile's contents back? Otherwise I will have to do every change that I made to my puppy again, by hand.

** Panicked **

[JakeSFR]

Probably this is what happend: viewtopic.php?t=4720
It's already fixed upstream: https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/woof-CE/pull/2691

As for the recovery, ntfsundelete works pretty well, but here the file itself wasn't deleted, but its contents, so I wouldn't expect much...
If the savefile wasn't encrypted/compressed, maybe testdisk/photorec could find some of the files, but even if, the filenames will be most likely lost...

Greetings!

[rcrsn51]

This won't be much consolation, but I have found that the safest strategy with NTFS is to split off a Linux partition and use a save folder.

[mikewalsh]

@user1234 :-

Little consolation, I know, but I back my saves up once a week, regular as clockwork. It's not a bad habit to get into, goes without saying.

All it takes is a simple copy/paste operation. That's all I've ever done.

It's saved my bacon on more than one occasion..!

Mike.

[user1234]

However.. clicking twice by accident, it promptly mounted the savefile to the same loop device.

I think that's what I did. I wish that I had deleted the overall savefile on its own. Then at least it would have been there in the hdd to get revived with the program that you mentioned .

It's not a bad habit to get into, goes without saying.

I'd say that rather not backing up is a bad habit, and of course bad habits need to be punished .

Thank you all for looking into my problem , and confirming that nothing can be done .

Next few days would be very tiring, I think .

[bigpup]

Try this:

Need to boot not using the bad save so it is not loaded.

Mount the partition the save file is on.

Open a terminal, and enter:

e2fsck /path to save file

For example:
Partition is sda1
Save file name is pupsave.2fs

e2fsck /mnt/sda1/pupsave.2fs

[user1234]

Try this:

Need to boot not using the bad save so it is not loaded.

Mount the partition the save file is on.

Open a terminal, and enter:

e2fsck /path to save file

For example:
Partition is sda1
Save file name is pupsave.2fs

e2fsck /mnt/sda1/pupsave.2fs

Too late for that. Have removed the savefile completely .

It's OK for me now, since most of my files are backed up.

The only that is not backed up is a SDL2 (in C) program, which I made when I was learning SDL. It'd be a mere practice for me now to remake the program .