Guess who's a complete idiot?

Mr.Blob

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Jun 12, 2009
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Yeah, me.

So my Steam broke when my PC blue screened. I tried restarting my pc but it wouldn't load. So I tried updating it. -No joy! :(
So then I deleted Steam. But what did I forget to back up? - "mapsrc" would have helped :C

I'm a prat.
 

Ida

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Jan 6, 2008
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Wow that sucks. :S

At least you could find and decompile your released BSPs, but still... Damn D:
 

Mr.Late

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You could try to vmex your old bsp files?
 

Nathan Quake

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May 8, 2010
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Damn. Unlucky there. Nothing you can really do for that I think.
 

Mr.Blob

L8: Fancy Shmancy Member
Jun 12, 2009
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No Drop box, no.

And de-compiling, maybe, but seeing as I deleted Steam, i'd only get maps that have been released. - not much help for new, secret ones! :CC
 

Hanz

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I got your bsp blobz
 

nik

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Aug 14, 2009
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jus hack ur herd drav n tek da fils beck
 

Pocket

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Man, I wish I could remember what undelete tool I used a few years ago when Windows decided that my naming a folder "temp" meant it could go in and empty it out without any notification. I think I've used Easeus's partition app and it worked well, though, so I'd recommend their file recovery tool before any other as long as it doesn't only work on newly-reformatted drives.
 
Sep 1, 2009
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Oh blob I wish there was a recycling bin for maps.
 

Retroid

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Aug 25, 2009
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If you can be arsed I reckon a file un-deleter could get it back, don't know how much it'd be able to retrieve or if Hammer would even reckognise it but I've heard miraculous stories in the past.
 

lana

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If you can be arsed I reckon a file un-deleter could get it back, don't know how much it'd be able to retrieve or if Hammer would even reckognise it but I've heard miraculous stories in the past.

I just finished saying it wouldn't
 

A Boojum Snark

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Not necessarily. It was a recent thing he did and just because it was recently deleted doesn't mean that's the first thing that will get overwritten. I was playing around with Recuva a couple weeks ago for fun and it was finding hundreds of files (totally intact, too) that I had deleted a year ago.

I would definitely suggest grabbing some recovery app and giving it a go.

edit: it depends a lot on how full the drive is, if you had a big chunk of free space it is more likely the ghost data is still there.
 

A Boojum Snark

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It's worth pointing out too, that because of the simple format of VMFs, even recovering half a file that was partially overwritten is still salvageable. Just clean up the corrupted areas so Hammer can read it and you could at least get something back to start from.