Be Excellent To Each Other

I'm hoping someone might be able to help out here. One of my colleagues has just realised that back at the start of the month he's accidentally overwritten the css file for a site he's put together with a completely blank one. I've tried looking in his browser cache, google's cache, the wayback machine and I'm at a loss as to where else he could try looking. He's going to have to contact the hosts to see if they have a backup but if anyone else has any suggestions that would be great ta.

The version control system that you should be using or the backup that you should be keeping.

Or behind the fridge.

Just to be clear when I say a colleague, I don't mean "a colleague" I mean actually someone else who isn't me. I shall tell him he's fucked it unless the hosts have a backup.

Have a look in the working directory of whatever he uses to edit the CSS file - there's a remote chance it auto-saves a backup.

My suggestion? Be more careful in future!

Is it time for IT cock-up stories? Probably not.
If it was time, I could tell you about the City based bank that came in on Monday morning, and according to their trading systems, China no longer existed. The joys of recursive deletes in batch files and poor user permissions. Or I could talk about the retail bank that found an application they didn't know about that was sending out encrypted information from somewhere, to somewhere. It had been running for 2 years. Their solution to the breach? They turned it off and carried on as normal.