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Warning: Deus Ex Extractor and Decompiler (DEED) - Postby Poor » 22 Nov 2013, 23:36


I planned on extracting some models with this program. I ran the GUI and when asked where I want to extract the files to I chose the Desktop. Without warning, it deleted over 100 GB worth of personal files, all my movies, shows, music, and ebooks. I now get to spend my weekend attempting to recover my files.

Also happened to some guy on OTP.

That Deus Ex Extractor and Decompiler is a *loving* menace. Just now I wanted to extract some textures and I chose the target folder as the root of my Deus Ex installation, without realising that it erases the folder you extract into first. Not only would I have lost the replaceable Deus Ex files themselves, but all my textures, meshes, sounds and classes i.e. several weeks of work (and if I hadn't only started modding DX recently, potentially months' or years' worth). I would have put my fist through the monitor if 'twere not for the judicious use of a file recovery application, which seems to have brought the most important stuff back from the brink.

Whilst this has impressed upon me the importance of backing up; what is the point of it, and why doesn't it warn you first?!


The program does work but not intuitively. When providing a destination for extraction, make sure it is an empty directory. I pass this warning on in hopes this doesn't happen again.


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Re: Warning: Deus Ex Extractor and Decompiler (DEED) - Postby ShadowRunner » 23 Nov 2013, 00:54


That sucks a lot, thanks for the warning.


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Re: Warning: Deus Ex Extractor and Decompiler (DEED) - Postby DejaVu » 23 Nov 2013, 01:00


In my opinion, if you don't have backup of every important file, you shouldn't be using your PC at all. What would happen if your HD died? There is always a risk for that, so keep your files backed up at all times (having redundancy 2x or more).


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Re: Warning: Deus Ex Extractor and Decompiler (DEED) - Postby [FGS]Chees » 23 Nov 2013, 02:25


Cheers Poor. Hope you can get your files back mate.


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Re: Warning: Deus Ex Extractor and Decompiler (DEED) - Postby chin.democ. » 23 Nov 2013, 14:50


[FGS]Chees wrote:Cheers Poor. Hope you can get your files back mate.


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Re: Warning: Deus Ex Extractor and Decompiler (DEED) - Postby Poor » 24 Nov 2013, 03:06


I was able to recover most of my files. Didn't lose anything important. Sure took a long time though.


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Re: Warning: Deus Ex Extractor and Decompiler (DEED) - Postby Alvind » 24 Nov 2013, 22:56


I'm a victim of this also but caught on before the whole desktop was wiped out lol


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Re: Warning: Deus Ex Extractor and Decompiler (DEED) - Postby Mastakilla » 25 Nov 2013, 02:31


DejaVu wrote:In my opinion, if you don't have backup of every important file, you shouldn't be using your PC at all. What would happen if your HD died? There is always a risk for that, so keep your files backed up at all times (having redundancy 2x or more).


lol I hate that saying, although I agree that you can't complain about lost data if you don't do back ups, what if you simply don't care about your data :-D


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