Thanks for taking the time to read this.  Did the dumbest thing I could have done yesterday and deleted a web form I had spent more than a week working on.  I immediately bought a file recovery program, but I am afraid it got confused by the aspx and aspx.cs extensions and what I got was some gobbledygook with less than half of the code in it.

It occured to me that I might be able to find the solution that was built before the file was deleted.  So my questions are:

1) I was working on a client and accessing the server from a remote ftp location.  Any chance a shadow copy is on my local machine?

2) Where should I look for the sln file?  Like an idiot, I rebuilt the soultion before I thought of this, but I might be able to recover ti using a sector scan tool.

This or any other idea that may help prevent the excrutiating process of re-doing a week's work would be so totally appreciated you don't even know.

Thanks again! 

mrgr8avill:

1) I was working on a client and accessing the server from a remote ftp location.  Any chance a shadow copy is on my local machine?

There is a small chance that the server has VSS Volume Shadow Copy running - if you can get remote desktop access then right click on the file (or folder) and look for "Previous Versions". If its there then you will be able to restore to a previous time.

The solution file doesnt contain the contents of the web form so it wouldn't have helped anyway.

I dont know if visual studio copies stuff to your local desktop but it might do. I think the files would be in \my documents\visual studio 20xx\web sites\ or \projects\ if they are anywhere?

On the plus side if you have lost this work then:

• You will never forget to backup your work before you mess with things ever again
• You will rebuild the webform in half the time and probably better