Ha Ha.
But I'm sure there is a way to recover deleted files using third party
software in windows. unless we re-write it.
Sanchit.
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 9:17 PM Jean-Claude Provost <jc.provost@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Oh, about 35 years ago (in the DOS days), I had written a stupidly simple
batch file called kd.bat (kd for kill directory. The idea was that, of
course, I knew what I was doing & it would kill the current directory where
I happened to be in when issuing the command. Back then, saving keystrokes
was of the essence, & I took great pride in my genious idea... I was
saying to myself ( to others), yeah, I'm blind, I always take more time
than others to acquaint myself with new programs but, I have my revenge
when using environments I'm familiar with... My lightning speed typing &
the use of clever batchfiles compensates for that I concluded.
until, one day, about 2 years after my great bragging achievement, not
sure why, I entered that command when I was..... in c:\...
It was not funnyð Harddrives were not that fast back then, & I could
hear it wirring as I was wondering how come the operation was taking so
much time... & then, the prompt came on my display... c:\.
I did not re-create that batch fileð
Cheers,
Jean-Claude Provost
-----Original Message-----
From: raspberry-vi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <raspberry-vi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Behalf Of Ken Perry
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2021 9:43 AM
To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [raspberry-vi] Re: Tough lesson
Wow! I am sure we all have at least one nasty story like that. I lost
800 meg once which included all my banking information for 10 years. That
was back in the unstable days of Linux though and while it wasn't rm it was
something just as bad. Glad to hear you were able to recover even if you
had to come at it sideways.
-----Original Message-----
From: raspberry-vi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <raspberry-vi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Behalf Of Michael A Ray (Redacted sender "mike.ray" for DMARC)
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2021 9:05 AM
To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [raspberry-vi] Tough lesson
Hello,
You would think that after over thirty years of being involved with
computers professionally, and after 25 years of using Linux, I would have
learned that if I was regularly in the habit of typing:
rm *~
In a directory to get rid of nano backup files, then it is inevitable I
would one day type:
rm *
Thus it was that yesterday morning I deleted all the original source of
all blog posts for raspberryvi.org.
Never mind...
I have written a Python script and library that scrapes the articles from
online at raspberryvi.org using BeautifulSoup and re-creates the original
markdown.
Just a little checking is all that is needed to make sure each article is
as it was before.
I usually use git to initialize a git repository in any tree I am working
in, but had neglected to do so for raspberryvi.org.
Tough lesson. But hey, it was fun writing the Python scraping code.
Mike
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