help...I deleted all my webpages

[Amy H]

I just built my first site. I was working in Frontpage and published my site.
As files moved from the local site to remote site I realized they were going
on the web and I got scared and stopped the tranfer. Then I deleted them on
the right side (remote site) stupidly thinking they would still be in their
folder on my hardrive, but everything is gone. The host company says they
are not there, they are not in recycle bin. Are they gone forever?

 

[Rusty]

Nothing you say you did was stupid, nor would it have deleted your local
files. What scared you about publishing your files to the server? It would
be hard to delete your local files unless you did it in the left pane.

 

[Amy H]

I was working thru my textbook and following the steps, but a few of my pages
were not 100% ready for the remote server. So when I saw that I was
transferring them, I stopped the transfer. Some had already made it to the
right side pane, so I deleted them in that pane only.

They really are all gone. I don't know what to do. Weeks and weeks of work
is lost.
I am tempted to just accept it and start over, but I am holding a flicker of
hope that someone in here has some advice for me.

 

[Brian Mailman]

Look up "hex editor"

When you delete something, it's not "trashed" so to speak, but the space
the files are in are marked as being available. The data is still there
until new data is placed.

You won't be able to get all your data back, but it's possible that some
are still there. It won't be formatted the way you wish, but the text
itself *might* be available.

B/

 

[Rob Giordano [MS MVP]]

IF you deleted them off the server side, you should still have your local
web...just open that and re-publish to the server.

Why would you be worried about publishing unfinished pages to the web???
It's not like there are people just waiting for them so they can slap you
down.

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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression