Comments on: Using Local History to restore deleted files

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 02:14:10 +0000

Hello,
I have a disaster recovery situation I’m in the middle of, and wondering if this feature might help me out. I actually lost several project directories, whole and complete. Am trying a number of things at the moment, but I’m du’ing against the .Intellij10 directory and I see a phat system/caches directory; I’m convinced my local history is just locked up in there.

Is there any way I can access this cache? I’ve started and quit IntelliJ only once since the incident; when I loaded it up (of course) it couldn’t load my last project because it didn’t find it; and it wasn’t available in “Reopen projects->” list…

Any thoughts/help would be appreciated!

Rob

By: Mike D

Mike D — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 01:31:01 +0000

Hey! Major thanks for posting this — you just saved my entire week of “uncommitted” work. And to think the IT guys said I was SOL. You rock!!

By: Irina Megorskaya

Irina Megorskaya — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:11:05 +0000

Hi Ken !

Thank you very much for your positive feedback

By: Ken Orr

Ken Orr — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:06:56 +0000

This feature saved me! Our source control system devoured one of my files and left not a trace of it behind. IntelliJ’s local history saved me, as it new the file was there before, and let me salvage its contents.

This is a fantastic feature!