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Important: VC++ Deleting files

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Stuart Konen - 02 Nov 2004 04:02 GMT
Hi, I recently contacted a Microsoft service rep and was directed here. My
problem is getting worse and worse. Here is the original message (several
days ago):

I've been using your Microsoft Visual C++ for my C++ projects for some time
now... I have been working with a project for the last three months, but
today, to my dismay. When attempting to save the workspace, I received an
error which read something similiar to "Unreferenced memory at...". Now I've
received this error while using Visual C++ before, but it never caused any
damage. Well today... It did. Upon reopening my project I found all of the
.cpp files to be deleted, however, the header files were intact. Due to this,
I have lost my entire 3 month project, which had well over 100 hours
involved. I've searched for a data recovery program that would find the file,
but with no luck. So to get down to it, how can I recover the file?

Thank you,
Stuart Konen

No longer am I so worried about recovering the file, but I urgently need to
fix this from happening, the error occurs most often when attempting to save
the workspace. I also get the occasional error of "Unable to save this
file...", but I can simply click save again and it'll work. Today I lost my
new project, and as you may have guessed I'm very angry over the issue. What
is going on here? And how do I fix it? I'm using Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 and
I'm confident it is a software error and not a hardware problem (everything
else runs perfectly).

Please help,
    Stuart Konen
Olaf Baeyens - 02 Nov 2004 15:23 GMT
> I've been using your Microsoft Visual C++ for my C++ projects for some time
> now... I have been working with a project for the last three months, but
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> involved. I've searched for a data recovery program that would find the file,
> but with no luck. So to get down to it, how can I recover the file?

First rule in software engineering, backup, backup backup, backup....
Every evening I zip the complete project and copy this to another drive.
This way I keep also previous zip files until my diskspace gets a little bit
low and then I start to delete the oldest files.

I do agree that VC should not delete it, even by accident, but there are
numerous other possible cause that can delete your files. I am thinking
about virusses, worms, malware, or even a normal power failure or harddisk
crash. Maybe it is not VC at all that deletes the files.

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Olaf Baeyens - 02 Nov 2004 15:32 GMT
I believe the first thing to check is to determin if your computer might be
infected by some trojan horse or virus or worm.
The second thing is to reinstall VC from scratch. Probably uninstall
everything and reinstall from scratch.

The good news is, recreating source code goes much faster than creating it
the first time. ;-)
Because you already know how not to do it. :-)

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Hendrik Schober - 02 Nov 2004 16:14 GMT
> [...]
>
> Please help,

 Are you using a localized version of VS? We
 have seen problems when trying to save files
 in the German version. Now everybody has
 switched to the English version (seems like
 those compiler error messages are translated
 by computers!) and we haven't seen the problem
 since.

>      Stuart Konen

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