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I know this should not have been done. We failed to find a way of recovering a mistakenly deleted file. He claimed he could properly edit the file, so I let him. Definitely my bad! So... is there a proper way of recovering a file from the attic, and keep the revision history? Tks, Dwayne Glen Starrett wrote: > P. Dwayne Miller wrote: > >> I have a user that tried to manually move a file out of the attic... >> (he had deleted it by mistake). Now, some operations work on that >> file, but some result in the following error > > >> He says he removed the 'DEAD" revision by editing the file manually. >> >> Any hopes? > > > Go to your last backup of your repository and restore the file from > that. You'll loose any changes since then but you could piece those > together from your broken RCS file. If you don't have a good backup, > I'd start looking at the RCS file spec and try to piece together what > is wrong. > > ...and never, EVER, do that again!... >