Professional Dumba$$ here; deleted everything ?

[FutileSS]

Need a genius to help me. So I restored my eeprom for a dumb reason to old configuration and it dumped all my games. Can I undelete? What files would I look for?

 

[FutileSS]

Need a genius to help me. So I restored my eeprom for a dumb reason to old configuration and it dumped all my games. Can I undelete? What files would I look for?

Like in R-studio recovery software I can see the .nca files.. But not the nintendo/contents folder

 

[binkinator]

Like in R-studio recovery software I can see the .nca files.. But not the nintendo/contents folder

You could probably spend a lot of time piecing things together but it could be a lot of effort and might still not work 100%. Unless there’s something personal (game saves with world records on them?) it will be much better to format and start anew.

 

[TomSwitch]

I think you mean you restore your nand backup. This is like restoring your PC with a backup. What changes that happen since the backup is gone. You have to undo your restore and if you don't have a backup to do the undo that is nothing that can be done.

 

[Tomato123]

You could probably spend a lot of time piecing things together but it could be a lot of effort and might still not work 100%. Unless there’s something personal (game saves with world records on them?) it will be much better to format and start anew.

I doubt there'd be any data left. Depending on exactly what happened, it's probable that what happened was equivalent to zeroing off a drive. And even if any data was left, it's likely very corrupted.

 

[binkinator]

I doubt there'd be any data left. Depending on exactly what happened, it's probable that what happened was equivalent to zeroing off a drive. And even if any data was left, it's likely very corrupted.

Was just laying it on him gently…

 

[TomSwitch]

Restoring a nand backup should only be done in absolution desperation like for example a bricked Switch. ( I am assuming no body make backup every other day )

If you go online it will likely get you banned for tempering with Nintendo's logs. (Much of it erased)
The only time the logs get erased is when you reset your Switch. (You may want to do that before going online and get banned)

 

[FutileSS]

Love you guys for sharing though, I made save backups with a couple tools and had that Tinfoil box checked to save local. I am getting over the fact they are lost but is there a way to install from .nca because I can see a recoverable list of .nca files. What's weird is how the I thought I would only affect the RAW partition. Like what if I had 2 different RAW partitions. Just booting to a different slot would effectively take the liberty to delete all the games like that.. no ? .. I mean is there anyway to say tinfoil the missing list of titles (of game backups) without having to manually find each one individually. Like install from ticket list?

 

[binkinator]

Love you guys for sharing though, I made save backups with a couple tools and had that Tinfoil box checked to save local. I am getting over the fact they are lost but is there a way to install from .nca because I can see a recoverable list of .nca files. What's weird is how the I thought I would only affect the RAW partition. Like what if I had 2 different RAW partitions. Just booting to a different slot would effectively take the liberty to delete all the games like that.. no ? .. I mean is there anyway to say tinfoil the missing list of titles (of game backups) without having to manually find each one individually. Like install from ticket list?

There isn’t really. Much easier to find games to reinstall.

It’s not like a desktop computer where the company built in a bunch of safeguards. We’re hacking things and are on our own with no net and no guarantees.

 

[TomSwitch]

Love you guys for sharing though, I made save backups with a couple tools and had that Tinfoil box checked to save local. I am getting over the fact they are lost but is there a way to install from .nca because I can see a recoverable list of .nca files. What's weird is how the I thought I would only affect the RAW partition. Like what if I had 2 different RAW partitions. Just booting to a different slot would effectively take the liberty to delete all the games like that.. no ? .. I mean is there anyway to say tinfoil the missing list of titles (of game backups) without having to manually find each one individually. Like install from ticket list?

The contents on your SD card are all there untouched. The problem is the system isn't looking for them anymore as you have not installed those games yet.

 

[binkinator]

The contents on your SD card are all there untouched. The problem is the system isn't looking for them anymore as you have not installed those games yet.

And the more you do things to “patch things up” the dirtier those unmarked files will become. She’s dead Jim.

(great description of the files btw)

 

[FutileSS]

Can you explain though like why it deletes them on its own.. Does that happen when you swap between raw partitions too ...

 

[binkinator]

Can you explain though like why it deletes them on its own.. Does that happen when you swap between raw partitions too ...

It doesn’t delete them. You simply over-wrote the index that tells the system where everything is. The data still there but your system has no way to reference where the files are and instead has a copy of an old index that points to nothing.

 

[TomSwitch]

Can you explain though like why it deletes them on its own.. Does that happen when you swap between raw partitions too ...

By raw partitions if you mean emunand the answer is after it forks they are independent. So anything you add on one will not be added on the other. Games added before the fork will be there, games added on one will be on that one only after the fork. It does not matter whether it is sysnand or emunand there is no way to keep them in sync automatically as far as I know. It would be extremely foolish to have two emunand sharing the same Nintendo directory ( don't do it ). You can if you want make a copy of the original for each.