Retreiving a deleted neighborhood?

[simsproot]

Is it possible to do so?  I deleted the wrong neighborhood by mistake and I was wondering if there was any way to resurrect a neighborhood with SimPE or something.

[DrNerd]

If you mean that it was a custom neighborhood, and you deleted it, and you had no backup, then no, it's gone for good.  If it was a premade neighborhood, you can reset it by copy/pasting the neighborhood folder from the appropriate Program Files folder to the corresponding My Documents folder, but that'll just reset the neighborhood to its original state, not put it back the way it was when you deleted it.

[simsproot]

Thanks for the help.  Alas, it was a custom neighborhood and I had no backup.

[BattyCoda]

If you are using Windoze, could it be in the recycle bin? Or, maybe there is a .bak file for it?

[jolrei]

I never got .bak files for TS2 hoods.  Also, if you delete the 'hood from within the game, windoze does not send it to the recycle bin.  If you deleted it from windoze explorer, the files are likely in the bin (unless you have some sort of auto-delete or auto-cleanup setting running).

[nil]

It's always advisable to make back-up whether one's playing or experimenting.  The thing is as long as one is anal about the custom game data, they should back up anyway just in case.

Yet, one may a morning-after approach right after such deletion like with recovery software to try to recover the deleted files.
a few major things to consider:

1. the recovery software(s) have to be installed before the event happened or at least installed in an another OS to operate the data recovery process.

2. the game engine might have alreeady overwritten the lost files in question coz the TS2 is an arbitrary monster that can turn read-only attribute in to writable one and overwrite files without prior consent.

3. there is no writing to the HD sector where the data are at by whatever means.

4. try it anyway regardless of a lesser chance.

5. the worst is such data was overwritten and is a mess.  The worse is such files are in an unrecognisable form, supposing one is energetic and patient about recovering it!