[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Eclipes deleted my files. HELP!!!

["Benno Baumgartner" <benno_baumgartner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"ScottyDawg" <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> Just following up to a message from Jan 12 
> (http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.newcomer/msg06643.html). 
> I'm having a similar problem - Eclipse has deleted an entire directory 
> leaving no trace of the files it contained.
>
> The problem occurs when creating a new project (the previous thread was in 
> regards to naming a project).  I'll create a new project, and I receive an 
> error that says something to the effect of "Problems encountered setting 
> project description," and the project is suddenly empty.  When I navigate 
> to the project folder on my file system, the contents of the folder are 
> gone. They're not recycled, not in recent history or local cache 
> somewhere; "Restore from Local History..." does nothing.  My files are 
> just deleted.
>
> I found another user with a similar (and unresolved) problem 
> (http://www.osflash.org/pipermail/osflash_osflash.org/2005-May/000088.html). 
> I've found no solution.  I even had Google desktop re-index my box to see 
> if they'd just been relocated, but no dice there, either.
>
> I encountered this problem last week using Eclipse 3.1, I upgraded today 
> to Eclipse 3.2, same stuff.  I've lost several hundred hours of work due 
> to this one, so if anyone has a solution/recovery method, I'd be extremely 
> appreciative.
>

I Scott,

What kind of project did you create? How did you create the project? Please 
provide the exact steps you took before you got the error message. Is there 
something in the log?

Benno