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Recover deleted files
I know it is old fashioned, but it looks like you just discovered the reason why serious programmers are keeping loosing their time doing useless backups.
The reason is that: Backups are a wast of time and resources til suddenly the backups become invaluable because someone did a mistake.
Backup - Wikipedia[
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Ok, it don't help this time, but next time, you will be ready.