Local History for any file (HDD crash and file is gone)
Hi,
I had a HDD crash and thus the drive letter as well as the files are gone. My backup is a bit older so I'd like to view the local history for the files in question.
I can view the local history for an existing file - but how do I open it for a file that is no longer existing (and neither is the project folder). I still have my PyCharm installation and user files on C:\.
Thank you
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I somewhat solved it. I used ImDisk Toolkit to make a RAM disk for that drive, put the empty project folder back alon with the ".idea" folder and then used local history on the project to revert the changes (only using the earliest 'external changes' backup for that start of PyCharm (there were several more with the same timestamp (the one of starting this PyCharm instance, but they then deleted files).
Seems I got everything back. At least all the text files, as .sqlite (and other files) are not saved it seems, but I had them in my backup.
Before you attempt this, make a backup of:
C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Roaming\JetBrains and
C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Local\JetBrains