It was a config file. Three hours of careful tuning. Gone in a moment of carelessness — a stray rm instead of mv in the terminal. I checked Git. Never committed. I checked my editor. History cleared on restart. I checked Time Machine. Last backup was two hours before the changes started. The file was gone. No recovery. The Solution I built CodeFootprint so this would never happen again. It is a Mac app that monitors your project folders and records every change to text and code files in real time. Every edit saved with a full diff Every deletion preserved with recoverable content Every change timestamped Everything stored locally on your machine How It Differs From Git Git records what you choose to commit. CodeFootprint records everything, automatically, regardless of the source — your editor, terminal, scripts, AI tools, or Finder. Git is for collaboration and deployment. CodeFootprint is for knowing what happened .…