How to recover deleted iPython Notebooks

Question

I have iPython Notebook through Anaconda. I accidentally deleted an important notebook, and I can\'t seem to find it in trash (I don\'t think iPy Notebooks go to the trash).

Answer 1

I think the easiest way (until developers handle this issue) to retrieve your Ipython history is to write them all into an empty file.

You need to check by the date you created your last script. Obviously, it is going to be the last part of your Ipython history.

To write your Ipython history into a file:

%history -g -f anyfilename