Dave Burke - Freelance .NET Developer specializing in Online Communities

A freelance .NET Developer

Another reason to blog

I was cleaning out my Visual Studio Projects folder under

d:\documents and settings\me\my documents\visual studio projects

and accidentally dragged a folder with project code I still need.  The folder name had a (2) in it, and for this reason (or some other) it was not saved in the recycle bin giving me the chance to restore it.  What is the friggen' deal with that??  And although I'm a religious backup guy, I never included my vsprojects folder because I backed-up the IIS directories.  But the THREE projects in this folder were not web apps, they were console apps.  Gone! 

I have the logic elsewhere since these were derived from asp.net apps, but any specifics not in asp.net source code can be found here on my blog. 

So another reason to blog is to provide notes to self on what you did a while back in case you need to reproduce it.  In most instances, however, backing up the VS Projects folder is a superior method to code reproduction...

Posted: Nov 23 2003, 11:46 PM by daveburke | with 5 comment(s)
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Matt Berther said:

Or a source control system.

Even for one user, a source control system can prove invaluable, especially in times like this.

I currently run CVS at home, but am seriously contemplating SourceGear's Vault's $49 single user license.
# November 24, 2003 12:04 AM

Dave Burke said:

I've read good things about SourceGear's Vault. While I decide I'll implement a VSProjects folder daily backup. Thanks!
# November 24, 2003 12:16 AM

Gopinath Varadharajan said:

http://www.pcinspector.de/download.htm#file_recovery
this tool to recover deleted files
past recycle bin.. Free and it really cool

exact same prob i faced from VS.NET
this worked like charm..

Gopi
# November 24, 2003 1:06 AM

julie lerman said:

I have not one, but TWO licenses, to SourceGear Vault Single user edition to raffle off at the user group. Sounds like you better be stuffin' the ballot box.
# November 24, 2003 8:15 AM

Dave Burke said:

Thanks to all for your comments! Gopi, that app worked great, but it did not find my VSProjects directory. I can only think it had something to do with the fact that VS.NET renamed it originally, adding a "(2)" to the folder name. It's a complete mystery. Thank you again for the recommendation, Gopi.

Julie, you continue to amaze me. Not one SourceGreat license, but two??????
# November 24, 2003 11:01 AM
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