Deleted scene by accident, how to recover it?

mikelsebastian

Hello guys, I accidentally deleted a save file, a scene to be precise, it had characters I have not saved and I really wanted to save for future use, the file did not went to the bin. I deleted it in the content library, and I can't find it, I try using recovera, but I can't find it, is there a wsy or file I can find to look for the daz scene? Or to recover it? Please, I really need those characters, for they took me quite a while to make and need them for the story I'm working on. Thank you.

Richard Haseltine

No back-ups? And you deleted it, noit just removed the reference from one of the database views? If so I am not sure there is a way to recover it, I'm afraid.

crosswind

Deleting scene files in DS Content Library sends nothing to Recycle Bin. Some leading recovery software can help you (e.g. I use EaseUS Data Recovery)... However, the pre-requisites is that you didn't save / write any data to that disk after deletion...If you did, I'm afraid you almost have no way to get it back or the recovered file will be just corrupted...

The safest way to delete a file is: in Content Library, right click to Browse to File Location, and delete the file from there... And better backup your working library periodically...

Richard Haseltine

Except that deleting from the OS browser will not remove any database entries, so you will have ghost references. The safest method is to take back-ups.

crosswind

That's right. So sometimes you can't have your cake and eat it... However the orphaned "ghost references" (with exclamation marks...) can always be easily removed from the product of LOCAL USER.

mikelsebastian

So I'll tell ya what happened, I had this saved scene named "KIKI" which had characters I wanted to use for a scene named "ARMY" so I loaded "KIKI" scene, I deleted everything, the props, the environment, everything but the characters, 6 characters to be exact, then I drag and dropped the "ARMY" scene onto the current scene which was "KIKI" (since I've never done this before i assumed it loaded the next drag and dropped scene, I assumed that at the time, then I saved the scene, which was still "KIKI", then after saving I close DAZ, two or three hours later I went back and open DAZ, since I no longer needed the "KIKI" scene I went from smart content- right click on "KIKI" scene- show file on content library- on content library right click on "KIKI" scene- Delete. It was after I loaded the "ARMY" scene where I saw my characters from the "KIKI" scene were no where to be found in the "ARMY" scene, it was then when I realized my mistake that I saved the changes and saved changes where saved as "KIKI" scene and not "ARMY" scene, but I have not been able to find the "KIKI" scene...

crosswind

You should've saved KIKI as a new scene...

mikelsebastian

crosswind said:

You should've saved KIKI as a new scene...

No no, what I meant is that I wanted the characters from "kiki" to be on "ARMY" and save army with the newly added characters from kiki, but instead. Because I drag and dropped army on the kiki scene all the stuff from army were place on kiki. (I had the belive that dragging and dropping a scene will make that, the scene, I know I'm wrong, but it was what I believed at the time) The thing is that I deleted kiki, when I didn't meant to, i deleted it from the content library, and is not in the bin or anywhere I look with recovera. Where would a deleted scene from content library be?

crosswind

mikelsebastian said:

crosswind said:

You should've saved KIKI as a new scene...

No no, what I meant is that I wanted the characters from "kiki" to be on "ARMY" and save army with the newly added characters from kiki, but instead. Because I drag and dropped army on the kiki scene all the stuff from army were place on kiki. (I had the belive that dragging and dropping a scene will make that, the scene, I know I'm wrong, but it was what I believed at the time) The thing is that I deleted kiki, when I didn't meant to, i deleted it from the content library, and is not in the bin or anywhere I look with recovera. Where would a deleted scene from content library be?

No matter you dragged ARMY to KIKI, save it as a New Scene... or loaded KIKI into ARMY, then saved it, the result would be the same...

Well, since you had already dragged ARMY into KIKI, then you should've saved it as, let's say, ARMY v2, then you could delete KIKI. However, you only saved KIKI, then afterwards you deleted KIKI, the ONLY scene file having those 6 characters... That was the problem.

In DS, there're different ways of merging scenes or scene subsets...you won't be doomed as long as you do the process correctly...

As for "Where would a deleted scene from content library be?", we've already said: deleting a file in Content Library sends nothing to Recycle Bin, therefore, you find it nowhere. Actually the deleted file is still in the partition of the disk, the only way you may try is to recover it with DATA RECOVERY software... if there's no data written to that disk after deletion.

Fishtales

If you have a scene in the future that you never want to delete or write over then find it in Windows Explorer where you saved it, right click on it and under Properties mark it read only and save. You can no longer overwrite that scene now unless you change the read only flag.

mikelsebastian

Fishtales said:

If you have a scene in the future that you never want to delete or write over then find it in Windows Explorer where you saved it, right click on it and under Properties mark it read only and save. You can no longer overwrite that scene now unless you change the read only flag.

Great tip thanks! For now I used a recovering tool and manage ti find the scene.