it wasnt netbeans that deleted and corrupted the sources it was windows restore
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for some reason i couldn't boot so i done a system restore and for some reason all the .java files and the project file were deleted.courrpted and wouldnt load back into beans.....
BACKUP BACKUP EVERYTIME YOU CHANGE SOMETHING.......
by a bizzare twist of good fortune i found an early version of my program on a usb stick i used to take to work...
so what i have done is create a new project with the same name as the program before......
then copyed over some parts of the early version of it
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now i need to decrypt the .class files and copy out the code i need back to .java and add that to the new package....
ouch did learn
alot tonight.....
if anyone else has a faster method please post as my method is all i can think of at the mo and been working on it non-stop for 4hrs odd and still got tons to do...
hehe well you live and learn......
oh turn of system restore on connected backup drives.....