The Ultimate in Stupidity

[Graeme1978]

SMF Version: SMF 1.1 RC3
As well as my forum, I use the webspace to host a few folders with various bits and bobs on.  I wanted to delete the contents of a folder last night so did a select all and hit delete.  It seemed to be taking ages and when I looked at the screen the horror hit me - I'd done a select all in the /public_html/ folder.  How stupid am I?

In terms of backups I've got one I did from the SMF interface a few weeks ago and an up to date backup of the SQL database downloaded from my host.

The first thing I tried was uplodaing all of the source files, and manually editing Settings.php to point to the intact SQL database, but it said couldn't connect to the database.  I cleared all of the SQL databases and created a new one, and installed SMF from scratch onto a new database, which worked fine.  I then replaced the new database with my backed up one - which has all the same settings but it then said it could not connect to it.  Using 1.1 RC3.

Is there any hope for restoration?

[sawz]

all is not lost. if you have an sql backup, treat it like your moving to a new host and use these instructions:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=105697.msg680291#msg680291

[Graeme1978]

Fixed

Ta!