Lowell Kirsh wrote:
> I just lost hours of work due to a combination of auto-revert-buffer
> and accidentally overwriting a file in my shell. I was working on
> foo.txt in an emacs buffer and accidentally overwrote it from a shell
> prompt while it was open in the buffer. When I went back to emacs, it
> reported that the buffer was reverted and when I tried to undo, it
> said no undo information was available. I've already checked in the
> ~/.backups folder but there is nothing useful there. Any ideas how I
> might be able to recover my work?
>
> Lowell
An autosave file has saved my keister a few times. Look for a file in
the same directory with the same filename except wrapped with pound
signs (#). Doing "ls -a \#*" should show it. In emacs you could simply
visit the trashed file and do M-x recover-file and reply with the filename.
Good luck.
hth,
ken
--
A lot of us are working harder than we want, at things we don't like to
do. Why? ...In order to afford the sort of existence we don't care to live.
-- Bradford Angier
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