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Newcomers DBPro Corner / accidentally deleted my .dbpro file

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six hundred and sixty six
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Posted: 19th Sep 2006 03:29
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i accidentally made a new file when i wanted to open my existing file and ended up naming the new project the same as my file. now my file is empty, but i still have the working .exe that i built from the original .dbpro file. is there any way i can get my code back using the .exe?
i have already tried opening the .exe in dbpro but it comes up blank, but when i run the .exe the game works perfectly, so the code must be there somewhere.
PLEASE HELP!!!!

Then I saw another beast, coming out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon.
-Revelations chapter thirteen verse eleven
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jinzai
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Posted: 19th Sep 2006 08:07 Edited at: 19th Sep 2006 08:14
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You could simply open the source file, and DBPro editor asks you if you want to make a project file. Or, you could create a new project, insert the source, and save as the same name as before. This is not a big deal because you should still have the source file...the DBA file, or a backup of it with a .bak extension in the project directory.

The .DBA is the source file. The executable does not contain the source file, only the code generated by it, as well as the DBPro runtime components it uses. Reversing that is called disassembly, and would not recreate your source file, only its structure.
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indi
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Posted: 19th Sep 2006 15:19
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If i recall theres a temp folder with a backup in the DBP folder structure if you havent opened another project since your accident.

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six hundred and sixty six
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i didnt actually delete my dbpro file, i saved a blank project over it. so the bak file and the dba file are both empty too.
thanks for help though. il just start over.

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