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So, the IDE crashed, prompted me to "Send a Crash Report" then closed. When I reopened my project, no files were visible. I checked the project folder and there's nothing there, only the .idea folder. All gone! Undelete tools find nothing... A day's work gone!

I've searched this group but found nothing helpful...

Is there a solution to this? Where are my files?

And why would an IDE crash wipe my files?

Devendra Singh
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TanTaiwan
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  • If you lost project inside AndroidStudioProject folder then you can make use of EaseUS recovery tool – akhil Rao May 23 '16 at 09:17
  • @akhil Rao, I had already tried Glary Undelete,nothing found, and was in the middle of doing a deep scan using Recuva when I solved my problem. The fact the files were 'moved' rather than deleted would explain the failure of recovery tools to find them.... – TanTaiwan May 23 '16 at 10:12

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After some digging around on my Hard Drive I noticed that said missing files were in a different project folder - the WRONG folder...

It appears the location of the original project that I copied then refactored was the target for Android Studio to dump the files when it crashed... Consequently the original project files were replaced/over-written...

What I do not understand is that there is are absolutely NO references, nada, to the original project folder in any of the files...

Good news is I got my files back and my project is back on track!

I guess my advice to others in this situation is to check all potentially related project folders for anything that has 'gone missing'.

TanTaiwan
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