How do I recover previous Local histories?

Question

My machine went off recently without shutting down and my IDEA workspace seems to be different. The file I was working on now only has a blank spaces. and the local history for it is empty how can I get this file back. The file is more than 6 months old. I really don't know what to do. Is there a way I can recover from past local histories or the cache?

Answer 1

How I finally solved it: I tried using recuva to get the delete history from my src folder, I was able to get the jb_bak and jb_old of the blank file. wasn't able to recover the original file from the jb_bak or jb_old though. I downloaded easus data recovery wizard

and specified my project's jar production in order to recover the deleted class outputs(since my src class files were overwritten already) i.e. C: \ IdeaProjects \ Yuppies \ src \ main \ resources \ Jars \ out \ production \ Jars \ yars \ ...

Yars was the folder containing my classes @src

For anyone who runs into this similar problem you may want to try checking the following paths as it applies for your project(my project's name was Yuppies ) if the above doesn't work or if you want to compare results above with these so you can get the copy of your file with the largest size/the most recent update:

C:\IdeaProjects\ Yuppies \target\classes\Jars\out\production\Jars\ yars \ ...

OR

C:\IdeaProjects\ Yuppies \target\classes\ yars \ ...

If that doesn't work too try checking if intellij built a jar of the original class @

C:\IdeaProjects\ Yuppies \target\classes\Jars\out\artifacts\ ...

and see if you can decompile the jar file.