Retrieve lost files - MacOS Big Sur

[TimLan]

Hey there, I recently updated to Big Sur, and then XAMPP wouldn't open. Googled around and found that I should install 7.4.12 for big sur, so I did just that. When I installed 7.4.12, it opened fine, but it wouldn't start, always giving this error: couldn't calculate MAC address. Then I searched again, and found that I should remove ~./bitnami/stackman, so that it'll work again. After removing it, it did work, but all my previous project files were gone. I know this may sound silly, but before I deleted the bitnami stackman folder, I've checked ~./bitnami/stackman/machines/xampp/volumes/root/htdocs and it was only filled with one ci_test folder, so I thought it was okay to delete it.

Any help is appreciated.

[DennisV]

Nope, it was not OK to delete.
All your files were in there.
"Hidden" in an machine.qcow2 file. (Virtual Machine).

If you really deleted the folder stackman, and don't have a backup, all is lost...