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unwipe

verb

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Wiktionary

verb

Etymology: From un- + wipe.

  1. To undelete; to restore (data, files, etc.) previously wiped.

    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.

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