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I need you help although what I did is embarrassing. I already searched the forum but found no posts covering this issue.

I am using xampp to build and setup a wordpress blog and today I accidentally deleted the blog's database and I don't have a backup. Stupid me, I know.
Anyway, I am trying to figure out if there is a way to recover it. I figured since it's all local, it might be somewhere on my pc. Unfortunately it's not in the Recycle bin, that would have been easy. I downloaded a couple of file undelete/recover programs and had them scan the whole hard drive but it found nothing. I know that the db was stored in the xampp\mysql\data\[nameofdatabase] folder but I had no way of recovering the deleted folder!
Any advice please?

Thanks in advance for any replies.

I know that the db was stored in the xampp\mysql\data\[nameofdatabase] folder but I had no way of recovering the deleted folder!

So it's lost... Sorry.

I guess it is. I did a deep scan with one undelete application (it was scanning my hard drive for a couple of hours and found nearly 50k deleted files!) but the folder was not found. I've already started building it all over again, I just lost a few hours of work.

However it still seems weird to me. I mean, the database was saved locally, it was in my hard drive in a specific folder. If I had deleted that folder from the windows explorer it would have appeared in the Recycle Bin. When I deleted it from phpMyAdmin it was completely gone, no traces left behind in the hard drive, not even when I tried to find any using those programs. Like it never existed. Any ideas on that? I'm just wandering.

Any ideas on that?

Sure. This "Recycle Bin" is a functionality of the Software Windows Explorer, not the Windows operating system.

Just delete something with another software then Explorer (or a software which is using the Explorer OCX), like "del" in the command shell (cmd.exe). It's also not in the "Recycle Bin".

You are right Wiedmann. I know that if you delete something using another program, it will not appear in the Recycle Bin but I expected to be able to recover it using some other undelete program. I had successfully recovered files that were not in the Recycle Bin using these kind of programs in the past and that is why I was hopping to do it this time too. Too bad it's not possible.

Thanks for your replys and your help.

if that on your local computer, use software undelated. but on server i dont know.