Accidental file deletion

I just performed a surgical attack on myself.

Working on a project. Hit play to test. Started having fun, pressing WASD, moving the mouse and clicking like crazy.

Then the cursor moved outside the game area. Right clicked the Scripts folder, the context menu came up in the blink of an eye. Was still trying to move my character to the right, so I presssed D repeatedly... It went for the Delete shortcut. D also goes for the confirmation dialog that asks if you really want to delete the folder.

Everything is gone. Even tried file recovering software. Nada. Had a backup from yesterday. Lost the day.

To Unity guys, would you consider removing the D shortcut for deletion and the confirmation dialog? Thanks.

Windows 10, Unity 2018.1.1f1

 

Why aren't you using version control?

 

Lesson learned. Next time be more careful. Put Project window in less accessible place, or even put different tab on top of it. And don't get crazy with inputs
My Project Folder tab is often hidden replaced by another scene, or inspector.

One day is nothing, if you come into realization, that spending week on something trivial, will make you mad.
Surely you get some ideas,and next time yo u will improve upon.
In the end, you did backup, which is good.

 

Screw all of that. Just use version control. Commit after every change. You'll never have to worry about it again.

 

Version control is great for coding, but I have issues using it with other kinds of files, such as textures and binaries. Do you guys use it for everything?

Well, good news here, everything was on the trash bin. I feel stupid for not checking there first, and glad Unity uses it properly.

 

Yeah I was going to say I thought Unity would just shove deleted files into the recycle bin, since it irritates me that it actually does that. Glad it saved you

 

Everything.

 

Yes. You can exclude stuff like autogenerated files, the Library folder created by Unity, and so on. Yes, binaries can eat up space, but in theory these shouldn't change much, so it's largely a non-issue.

Cool. You should still look into source control, though. There WILL be a time where you stop and think, "Hmm it used to work... what happened?" Then you'll be thankful that you have a history of code changes to walk through.

 

Pretty much. As mentioned, make sure you ignore stuff that shouldn't be versioned. Once you're in the version control groove you'll wonder how you ever worked productively without it.

Yes, binary files are unwieldy for systems like Git to handle compared to text files. But, Git handling them is still far less unwieldy than you doing versioning by hand or, worse, not versioning at all.

 

My question is why were you clicking so haphazardly in the first place honestly.

 

This may be useful for OP, of how to setup github repo

 

But do please note that "GitHub" is not the same thing as "Git", and that stuff hosted on GitHub is public by default .So don't accidentally give your, or other peoples', stuff away.

 

Yes true.
Good think in video however, is that it shows how to use desktop github, so you can have as well only local repository, without needing uploading to the server. I think is good for starters, as is simple to setup.

@angrypenguin do you have specific suggestion / advice, or preference regarding git?

 

Not really, aside from that bit.

I'm no Git expert. I know it well enough to work effectively with it, and that's really about it.

There are hosts who offer free private repos, so perhaps look around before you choose one?

 

Darn, I had one on my mind long time ago recommended, but my brain fade out. I need reach the person back.
I think reason I haven't used it, that all configuration was command line based.

As of now I run repos mainly on local machine, with periodical backups on external storages.

Thx anyway.

 

I use Visual Studio Online. Despite the name you don't have to use it with the Visual Studio IDE, it's free for teams of up to 5 people, and there are no repo size limits which makes it particularly well suited to game projects.

I definitely recommend getting 3rd party hosting, if for no other reason than it provides a backup of your project.

 

Thx checking now. Looks ok in first glance. Just not so fan, on using too much of M$ services

In fact I got access to hosting storage in few places. And I do occasionally store project files, usually pass worded. But not as often as on local drive backups. But indeed precautions.

Also, since I am using VS only from early 2018, I had repo organised a bit differently before then.
With a recent little arrangement, I have find out, that VS plays nicely out of the box with git in project folder.



Definitely I like it.

 

Was it Bitbucket? They have a free service but only a mere 1GB.

https://bitbucket.org/product/pricing

Unlike Visual Studio Online which is hundreds of gigabytes.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2013/11/20/how-much-data-can-you-put-on-vsonline/

 

Yeah, complete target hit in 10
Cheers

Yep, I do recall these restrictions, but storing mainly scripts is more than enough.

 

GitHub is now an MS service, too.

I don't mean somewhere online to stash files. I mean online Git hosting so that a remote copy just happens as a part of your normal workflow without you having to do anything special.

 

Oh is it? Darn bugger monopolists
I know they are taking lot of services. But thats new to me.

I thought briefly you may be heading thoughts that direction. I got you now.
In such case, high capacity hosting is desirable indeed.