General ⇒ Recovering my tex file Please help

[megh500]

Hello
i have pdf of my file and the rest of files same as aux,.... My tex file shows null so i can not open it. what should i do to recover it. it is important and vital.
thanks

[Stefan Kottwitz]

If you don't have a backup copy, it may be lost. Physical recovery tools for your operating system may be an option, to recover parts of the text.

Look if your editor made automatic backup copies, such as a file with an extension .bak or .~.

Or copy and Paste from the PDF to get the text, and format it again in TeX.

Stefan

[megh500]

No back up.
i wanted to copy paste from pdf but what should i do with references?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Labels and references? They have to be recreated. Looking into the .aux file can help. (make a copy)

Or do you mean bibliographic references? They should still be in the .bib file, if you used it.

Stefan

[megh500]

i mean i have to cite again all of my references in text? i have more than 70 references in text and 9 figures

[Johannes_B]

Yes, you have to do stuff again.

Look at tools like git and similar.

[megh500]

Git is for developers as far as i did investigation. Is there any tool that can backup my latex files with keeping history automatically with visual interface?

[Johannes_B]

Not just for developers. It takes csre of text file history, tex files are text files.

There are even visual helpers.