Its hurts when you delete code

Sometimes as a developer I do things that make me so angry with myself. A couple of weeks ago I was doing some analysis on a performance problem I was experiencing loading a screen with 5 labels and 5 segmented controls. The screen was taking about half a second to load, when it should have been instantaneous. I started isolating the problem by removing code and QML.

Fast forward two weeks, I go back to those files and all of the code I deleted is gone. Typically I would copy and paste the code into a notepad and save it in a temporary directory, but no suck luck. What was I thinking?

Eclipse keeps past revisions of files, but due to the recent power outages that caused qde.exe to lock up, I had to delete my Eclipse metadata, meaning that backup is lost as well.

And most developers would be using a revision control system, but I haven't quite got Git setup yet.

So I'm out of luck, another couple of hours of work down the tubes. It's just not my week...

... and my dev alpha appears to be bricked again. GROAN.