Go to Hell with Visual Studio Web 2005 Express
Sadish on Jan 9th 2006 11:55 pm
Yes It really took me closer to Hell atleast.
I was using this “Visual Studio Web 2005 Express” from Microsoft for doing my site development.
When I opened up the project in my server, it displayed all the folders within my wp-content/themes/ folder.
I worked on a few of the themes, but left other folders un-touched.
After a while, I wanted to archive all of the themes that I developed,into a different location in the server. So I went ahead and cut these theme folders and paste into the new location.
Bingo !
Everything seemed like an absolutely successful move.
now I went to this new location and opened one of the theme that I worked on recently. Yes it was there. but let me try to open something that I did not touch recently.
it just showed the folder, with no files inside.
Oh My God, I checked the other folders too, they were all just a folder copy, but no files within them were copied. How about in the original location ? Oh sure, it was deleted from that place.
Wow…what can I do now ? Is it there on the recycle bin of this machine ?
NOOOOOOOOO….Everything is gone. Period.
Oh my God !, what a wonderful system it is.?
Apparently, what happens is, when you copy and paste the folders, it only copies the files from your local machine.
If you have opened the files recently, it would have made a copy of it locally.
so when you say, cut and paste, it takes the local copy and paste it to the new location.
but for all folders which I did not touch, those were not there in my local machine and so were not pasted to the new location.
Who is to be blamed ? I dont know.
Who is the loser now ? Thats me. 
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1கீதாon 10 Jan 2006 at 12:05 am
2Saravananon 10 Jan 2006 at 9:58 am
Oops!!
Wait near the Hell, until Google Studio comes and rescues you!!.
3reddyon 10 Jan 2006 at 10:24 am
so did u get ur files from some back up or not?
4Sadishon 10 Jan 2006 at 12:30 pm
Nope. I havent been able to get the files from the server backup.
I sent an email to 1and1.com and they havent responded yet.
I was able to get a few of the files restored from my local backup, but not all of them.
Just a lesson to be learnt and the knowledge to be shared.
5WP Themes.info » The way it workson 11 Jan 2006 at 4:01 pm
[...] I use Visual Studio.NET and connect to the server, through FrontPage Extensions (eventhough I had a bad experience with it recently) It is very good for editing the CSS file, as it has the Intelli-Sense feature. [...]
6Sadishon 14 Jan 2006 at 1:12 pm
1and1.com replied after a week, that this kind of backup, they cannot provide it.
they have the backup, but they will use it only if it is their fault,(like the server went down or something).
Thats it for now. just learn the lessons. Thanks.