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Tomcat Uninstall - Major Problem

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  • 06-05-2006 2:41pm
    #1
    pontovic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 658 ✭✭✭


    Hi

    I had about 10 websites I have been working on for the last two years deleted from the TOMCAT_INSTALL/webapps/ROOT directory. When I uninstalled Tomcat it asked me did I want to keep these. I said 'yes' and after then uninstall was complete I went to check this directory and it was EMPTY ! Im at a huge loss with this because a site I had just been working on today for the last 4 HOURS is now gone.

    Does anyone here know, would tomcat move these off to a different directory when the uninstall is complete ? Is there any way I can recover these files ??

    I was running Tomcat 4.1 on Windows XP Service pack 2.


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    #2
    Karoma
    Registered Users Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    Best to read these mesages.

    Fire up an undelete program.


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    #3
    pontovic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 658 ✭✭✭pontovic


    I actually clicked 'No' indicating that I wanted to keep all the stuff I had created and it still deleted it for some reason, or moved it. I wouldn't be so sloppy about this in fairness. !


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    Karoma
    Registered Users Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    So 'yes' means 'no'? Oh..got yore number!
    If you had clicked No - they'd be there.
    Get an undelete program and use it. Stop writing to the disk in the meantime to be on the safe side.
    Good luck with that.


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    irishmilk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 58 ✭✭irishmilk


    try "easy recovery", "final data". these two saved my most data on a formated HD.


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    #6
    pontovic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 658 ✭✭✭pontovic


    I used PC Inspector File Recovery and recovered all but 2 files from the 'webapps/ROOT' diretory for the old tomcat installation. I stand by my claim that I chose not to have this directory deleted. After the uninstall, the webapps directory remained with 2 XML files in it but no ROOT directory. If I chose to completely wipe the Tomcat installation, it would have wiped all this too no ?

    Just a warning, backup all your stuff before uninstalling tomcat and installing a newer copy. I was lucky to recover all my stuff. Now if only they could get it right the next time so peoples stuff isn't deleted.

    Thanks for all your replies


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