Restore accidently deleted Favorite lists?
Hi,
I accidently deleted several Favorite lists in PhpStorm side panel with Backspace button (which should never delete Favore lists without confirmation btw.) and I'm looking for a way to restore those. Some Favorite lists had dozens of files tied to a signle Tasks and i dont even know which were selected/deleted when i hit Backspace button accidentally.
Edit/Redo menu item does not work for Favorite list operations.
I learned, that in PhpStorm 10.X favorite lists are stored in workspace.xml, but that file is not part of project so there is not local history.
Is there a way to restore deleted favorite lists if there is no other external backup of .idea folder?
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As discussed in a support request, favorites can't be restored unfortunately.
I asked the community before I got your answer hoping someone alredy has found solution for this. Thank you for your reply.
That's totally fine, no worries. I've left this comment just in case anyone else was wondering.
Since you don't have a backup, you an just apply a third-party tool to recover your lost lists, how about using the Bitwar Data Recovery> I have used it before, I think it works well in recovering data, so maybe you can also have a try. Good luck!
I am using Intellij IDEA (aka IJ), but perhaps the concept is the same for PHPStorm. My problem was this: I had closed IJ for some reason and when I opened it again, I had problems with my open projects. So I removed them from the window and did this: File > New > Module from Existing Sources, for each of my 5 projects, to restore them to the window. However, doing this cleared out my favorites.
Having seen in this post and elsewhere that favorites are stored in the file .idea/workspace.xml, I looked at this file for each of my projects, and I noticed that one of my projects still contained all of the favorites there, in xml format. So since I am just getting started with favorites, and my list of favorites is not that long, I went ahead and restored them manually. I would suggest copy/pasting them into a scratch text file before you do this, in case workspace.xml gets overwritten while you restore manually. There is something similar in Eclipse, a plugin called MyLyn, where you can save favorites, and that plugin will periodically backup its data. Using it, I even went so far as to manually backup the MyLyn folder in case Eclipse mysteriously lost it (as sometimes it would). Adding a feature to auto-restore favorites in IJ would be appreciated.