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Recover file - SAS University Edition

Demographer — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 09:48:39 GMT

Hi,

I use SAS University Edition. In the left menu, I deleted by mistake all files in "My folders", thinking it was "Library". I thus lost the *.sas file. Is there a way to recover it? I don't see any trash bin.

Re: Recover file - SAS University Edition

Kurt_Bremser — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 10:06:11 GMT

The virtual machine on which University Edition runs is a UNIX, and therefore respects its user and assumes that said user knows what he/she's doing (if irony is found, you may keep it). It does not offer the "Trash Bin" functionality found on desktop systems like Windows or Mac/OS (or the more advanced GUIs on Linux, where such functionality is available for their file managers, but not the commandline).

It is a good idea to have some kind of backup mechanism that saves the contents of the shared folder to a different location, if you have critical data in there.

I just verified on my UE on a MacBook that deleting a file in UE does not move it to the Mac's Trash Bin, it deletes it for good.

Re: Recover file - SAS University Edition

Demographer — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 10:08:03 GMT

So you are saying there is just no way to recover anything, even if I didn't close the machine?

Re: Recover file - SAS University Edition

Kurt_Bremser — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 11:01:28 GMT

@Demographer wrote:

So you are saying there is just no way to recover anything, even if I didn't close the machine?

Yes. The delete is done immediately on the filesystem.