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accidentally deleted .vdi file - i have a snapshot

Posted: 26. Apr 2015, 20:38
by getouttathere
hi :(

i am shift deleted guest system's storage .vdi file. tried recuva and rstudio but can't recovered the .vdi. i have all of guest's files except storage vdi. could i recover my files with new guest from snapshot? or what you prefer? i need only one file..

Re: accidentally deleted .vdi file - i have a snapshot

Posted: 27. Apr 2015, 11:55
by mpack
Snapshots are patch files. If you don't have the base file to be patched then the snapshot is not useful.

The only thing that would be useful is a backup, taken any time after the first snapshot was created.