hi its a long story i was very ill and my system got stolen after getting a new system and coming back from a long period in hospital i have a hardware project i was working on before all this but not a copy from the original program. apart what is loaded in the arduino mega board.
is there any way to download the code from the board at all if not i have lost 3 months work
No. What's in the board is object code (compiled binary). The source code never leaves the PC, so if your PC is gone, and you had no backups, you're back to square one.
Regards,
Ray L.
Sorry, the source code no longer exists. If it is any consolation, it is usually much faster to reconstitute a project from memory than create it from scratch. Though you will introduce new and exciting bugs. 8^)
Often times you'll find ways to do things in a better way too, at least I always have.
Hope you're feeling better.
back to the drawing board then
It's too late, now. I print copies of my program source for documentation and file them in 3 ring binders. You might do something like this, also. Hope your hospital stay was a one-time thing.
Paul
It's too late for your current project, but use cloud storage. I pay $2 a month for 100 GB of Google Drive, and keep a core set of my documents there.
I also never keep the only copy of a file on a flash drive. Everything on my flash drive gets backed up to my computer regularly.