unwipe

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ wipe.

Verb

unwipe (third-person singular simple present unwipes, present participle unwiping, simple past and past participle unwiped)

1. (transitive, computing) To undelete; to restore (data, files, etc.) previously wiped.
   • 2010, James Robert Smith, The Flock, page 148:

     Of course, before that, he had put the photo files he'd made on disk and had erased them from the hard drive. While a good troubleshooter could unwipe them, he'd first have to crack the security barriers Tim had installed.

   • 2014, Orson Scott Card, Earth Awakens:

     So the computer wipe had been cursory, and it had taken Bingwen only a few minutes to unwipe everything.

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