unwipe

English[edit]

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

(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.