Recover deleted ipython/jupyter notebook?

Question

I accidentally deleted an ipython notebook (.ipnyb) when I meant to delete an untitled notebook and didn't realize the other notebook was selected. Has anyone ever been able to recover a deleted notebook?

Answer 1

Hope you've already found how to recover lost work from Jupyter notebook work. If not, try the following:

Go to Anaconda Navigator (or go to step 3 for Visual Studio Code).

1. Launch a Jupyter Lab
2. In Jupyter Lab, open a Terminal window
3. Launch iPython in the terminal by typing ipython and hitting enter
4. Run "%history -g"
5. All your codes are stored in history and each cell compilation that you would've done in the past shows up there.
6. Copy+Paste it back to a new Jupyter notebook and you are ready to go again!