Title: Plugin update deleted my work
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Plugin update deleted my work

 *  [spadija](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spadija/)
 * (@spadija)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-update-deleted-my-work/)
 * I was working on a widget, and since I am just learning how to make widgets and
   use PHP in general, I based my widget on the example widgets. (google search,
   etc…)
    I use my computer for web development, so I have wordpress running on 
   my computer. I upload things to my website once they work on my computer. Today,
   I logged in to my local wordpress’s admin page and noticed that some plugins 
   had updates. Without thinking, I told wordpress to update them. The only copy
   of my widget was inside the “plugins/widgets” directory. None of the original
   contents of the widgets directory were there when I updated, but afterwards, 
   I found that the entire contents had been replaced with the original files. Thus,
   my only copy of quite a lot of code is completely gone.
 * None of the now absent files appeared in the recycling bin.
    I am about to try
   every file recovery program in existence, but while I do, I’d like to know if
   anyone knows a way I can recover my work.
 * I am running windows xp and am using the latest xampp to run wordpress.
    The 
   files were located at “c:\\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\widgets”
   and a subdirectory of the same folder called “media-player” if that is of any
   help.

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 * [overwrite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/overwrite/)
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 * Last reply from: [spadija](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spadija/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-update-deleted-my-work/)
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