Urgent help please...

Urgent help please...

[Carlos Alfaro]

    First, excuse me if this list isn't the best place to post this
question, but I really need help.
    I've been writing a program on Linux, a 3D control simulation
enviroment. Today, due to a stupid mistake I deleted my home directory, and
with it went all the source code and the back-ups... An entire year of work
down the digital drain...
    But I remembered that I had been compiling the program in gcc with
the -g flag, so the source is almost all there, in the executable and the
shared libraries it consists of...
    My plee of help is for a way to get it all from the binary files, if not
using gdb then with any other way you might know of... Please help me here,
I spent too many hours with this project and it's almost impossible for me
to do it all over again...
    Thanks for any help you may give me.

Carlos Alfaro

Re: Urgent help please...

[Matthew Schalit]

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Carlos Alfaro wrote:
> 
>     First, excuse me if this list isn't the best place to post this
> question, but I really need help.

It's ok with me that you need help.  We've all rm'd the 
wrong thing a few times :-/


>     Thanks for any help you may give me.
> 
> Carlos Alfaro


Attack this from two fronts.  Immediately power down the
computer and remove the hard drive.  Take it to the nearest
data rescue center to get your deleted files back.  This is
generally possible if done right away.

Have them gather the gdb and gcc files you were looking for
and get them to a cd so that you can persue recreating what
they can't salvage in the meantime.

That's just my 2¢ worth.  I'd also check out the data recovery
web sites for a more thorough explanation.  You'd probably
feel a bit better if you called on of them  them.

Obviously, if it's not your computer and you can't remove
the hard drive, then this wouldn't help you.  But I was
hoping otherwise.

Good Luck,
Matthew

Re: Urgent help please...

[Carlos Alfaro]

> Attack this from two fronts.  Immediately power down the
> computer and remove the hard drive.  Take it to the nearest
> data rescue center to get your deleted files back.  This is
> generally possible if done right away.

    It is too late for this I think... I was compiling GTK+ at the same
time, and probably the data is already gone... :-[
    A wild idea I had was to get the source back with a kind of
reverse-compiling of the binaryes I have together with the symbol info
present with the debugging data... Anyone tried or herd of a thing like this
before?...

Carlos