topic Re: How to recover a deleted file? in SAS Studio

How to recover a deleted file?

genemroz — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 23:38:45 GMT

YIKES! I just inadvertently deleted a file from my /home/u12345678/.... directory in SAS OnDemand for Academics. I spent the last three days getting it coded right.

Is there anyway to recover it?

Thanks in advance for any words of wisdom...

Gene

Re: How to recover a deleted file?

Reeza — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 23:49:45 GMT

If you ran the code recently see if it's stored in your log/run history (Hopefully did not exit yet).

Re: How to recover a deleted file?

genemroz — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 23:54:11 GMT

Thanks for the prompt reply. But, unfortunately, the log/run history is not available.

Re: How to recover a deleted file?

Kurt_Bremser — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 07:32:36 GMT

If the file existed for at least a day, SAS technical support might be able to recover it from a backup.

The On Demand login page has a link to technical support.

Re: How to recover a deleted file?

lentichin — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 16:21:33 GMT

I use SAS University Edition through Oracle VM and always remember to save my files. I saved my file but left the VM open and left the house for awhile. I come back and shutdown SAS because it says my session has expired, nbd. I reopen the VM and SAS and prompts me to open the "last autosave file because it's newer than the file I'm trying to open". I save the file without realizing the autosaved file was literally when I created the SAS file and has basically no code in it. I just lost 8 hours of work. Thank you SAS. Any ideas on how to recover the file? Unfortunately the files were not one OneDrive.

Re: How to recover a deleted file?

SASKiwi — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 19:05:32 GMT

Never rely on the AUTOSAVE feature and maintain separate saved files that are also backed up. Keeping the last few versions of programs is also good policy. Then if you make a mistake, like you did in your case, you can go back to the last good version.