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Recovering a deleted map

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I unistalled warcraft, and then reinstalled it and got into map making again. I had a map and it was awesome but i can't find it.

Is there any way to recover the lost map i had?
 

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1. Search for map name using the OS file search program.
2. If this was recent, you may be able to restore the map via shadow copy (W7 only).
3. Check where you normally made maps. If you did not delete the folder it should still be there with all the maps in it.

If the data has been deleted, no restores for it available and you have no backups then it is gone for good.
 
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idk if this will work but...i uploaded it on pastebin and its gone, is there a way to bring it back or no?
 
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idk if this will work but...i uploaded it on pastebin and its gone, is there a way to bring it back or no?
Your asking the wrong set of people for that. The group of people who would probably know that would be either the moderators or the administrators, but as far as I know, no.
which one is recommend?
Well, any one of them would work, but number one should be the top notch program.
 
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WE can try to fix map uploaded on this site, we can try to fix protected or even damaged map, but we can't bring back map deleted from your HD :sad:
There is small chance that map left stored on your HD somewhere, but if you deleted it permanently (for example using "Shift"+"Del") you should start working on new one.

Small advice:
Save all important data on USB drives, online sites or even your phone once per week or after each big progress :)

Another one:
Always save important things in 2 different folders (different HD partition is the best choice), this can help in next situations:
-HD crush (still some data can be saved)
-System crush (in most cases you will lost everything on partition contain OS)
-Some programs require time to save data (WE is epic example), there is small chance that PC can turn off or something happen to it, your file get permanently damaged
 
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