My code was wiped from one class file in java/eclipse

Question

My laptop died while programming, the class file in question was saved a few moments before it happened. When i started eclipse again I couldn't open my workspace because of some error, so I deleted.metadata from my workspace and imported my peoject again.

All my class files are fine, except the one I was working on before my laptop died... which has months of work on it.

I have a back-up project from a few days back, tried importing it but the exact same problem remains. And I can't restore the file from local history cause apparently there is none.

The file has no code in it, no imports or anything. There is an error on line 1 which is empty, telling me its a syntax error. Nothing I do removes this error. Please help

Answer 1

If this happens to anyone, I found all of my code inside the.log file that appeared when I could not open the project. So I deleted.metadata, deleted my file with code in it, then just copy-pasted it from the.log file.

Then again, deleting.metadata is a bad idea so avoid it if you can.