Transposed from Gaiiden’s Scroll
Well, I was prepping the release version of GC to ship out to the team. I went to copy all my directories into the Release folder where I do final packaging seperate from the development folder and I accidentally click dragged instead of right-click dragged. So I started moving files until Windows asked me if I wanted to move a system file (thumbs.db). That’s when I canceled, but I forgot that doesn’t return any files already moved. So then I actually copied them over. Now I can’t distribute any source files so I use a batch command file (del /s *.cs) to remove all the source files and leave the compiled source files (.dso). However it seems that in the move Windows managed to move all my source files/folders into the Release directory.
Yea.
The cruelty is that as far as I can tell, the source files were pretty much the only things that were moved before I canceled the operation. Someone up there definetly doesn’t like me.
I have backups… from my last release a week ago. I was going to back up this release as well… after I packaged it. And here I was afraid of drive failure at the start of the year. Yeesh
So I’m not totally screwed, but having to redo a week’s worth of work… well. Yea.
And forget the data recovery, tried some freeware apps and couldn’t get anything worthwhile 
Oh well, hopefully this weekend I’ll be able to reclaim my lost time – at least I know what I’m doing, even if I have to do it all over again *sigh*
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