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#1 ·  Posted

Can anyone know how can i fix this file. My pc restarted while i was saveing the modification.

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#2 ·  Posted

The file is empty, there's nothing in it to recover, it is full of NUL characters.

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Back up and restore Windows user files _Array.au3 - Modified array functions that include support for 2D arrays.  -  ColorChooser - An add-on for SciTE that pops up a color dialog so you can select and paste a color code into a script.  -  Customizable Splashscreen GUI w/Progress Bar - Create a custom "splash screen" GUI with a progress bar and custom label.  -  _FileGetProperty - Retrieve the properties of a file  -  SciTE Toolbar - A toolbar demo for use with the SciTE editor  -  GUIRegisterMsg demo - Demo script to show how to use the Windows messages to interact with controls and your GUI.  -   Latin Square password generator

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#3 ·  Posted

If you look in the bottom left of the editor (Scite) you can see there are 8119 characters the same as before my computer restarted.

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#4 ·  Posted

Yes, and every single one of them is a NUL character. Like I said above. So, technically it's not "empty" but there's nothing in there to recover.

If I posted any code, assume that code was written using the latest release version unless stated otherwise. Also, if it doesn't work on XP I can't help with that because I don't have access to XP, and I'm not going to.
Give a programmer the correct code and he can do his work for a day. Teach a programmer to debug and he can do his work for a lifetime - by Chirag Gude
How to ask questions the smart way!

I hereby grant any person the right to use any code I post, that I am the original author of, on the autoitscript.com forums, unless I've specifically stated otherwise in the code or the thread post. If you do use my code all I ask, as a courtesy, is to make note of where you got it from.

Back up and restore Windows user files _Array.au3 - Modified array functions that include support for 2D arrays.  -  ColorChooser - An add-on for SciTE that pops up a color dialog so you can select and paste a color code into a script.  -  Customizable Splashscreen GUI w/Progress Bar - Create a custom "splash screen" GUI with a progress bar and custom label.  -  _FileGetProperty - Retrieve the properties of a file  -  SciTE Toolbar - A toolbar demo for use with the SciTE editor  -  GUIRegisterMsg demo - Demo script to show how to use the Windows messages to interact with controls and your GUI.  -   Latin Square password generator

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#5 ·  Posted

well is not the best of news that i have expected. Thanks anyway

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#6 ·  Posted

If you use the full version of SciTE and have used Tidy on your script, there is a possibility of a back up copy existing somewhere.

If I posted any code, assume that code was written using the latest release version unless stated otherwise. Also, if it doesn't work on XP I can't help with that because I don't have access to XP, and I'm not going to.
Give a programmer the correct code and he can do his work for a day. Teach a programmer to debug and he can do his work for a lifetime - by Chirag Gude
How to ask questions the smart way!

I hereby grant any person the right to use any code I post, that I am the original author of, on the autoitscript.com forums, unless I've specifically stated otherwise in the code or the thread post. If you do use my code all I ask, as a courtesy, is to make note of where you got it from.

Back up and restore Windows user files _Array.au3 - Modified array functions that include support for 2D arrays.  -  ColorChooser - An add-on for SciTE that pops up a color dialog so you can select and paste a color code into a script.  -  Customizable Splashscreen GUI w/Progress Bar - Create a custom "splash screen" GUI with a progress bar and custom label.  -  _FileGetProperty - Retrieve the properties of a file  -  SciTE Toolbar - A toolbar demo for use with the SciTE editor  -  GUIRegisterMsg demo - Demo script to show how to use the Windows messages to interact with controls and your GUI.  -   Latin Square password generator

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#7 ·  Posted

This happened to me some time ago, and recently as well, I think my hard drive is beginning to loose it or something, sometimes files just disappear.

Anyway, It turns out that when you compile your script or run tidy I think, there are copies made in the temp directory, I used some command line app that recovered thousands of deleted files, left it running for about 3 hours and came back, used scite to launch the "find in files" feature, searched for a unique string I remembered and found the little bastard.

Things that I've done..

• Icon Resource Editor: icon resource editor 

• AutoIt Piano: a piano

• AutoIt Unlocker: unlocks files when you want to delete them

• Colorful tooltips: a wrapper for the tool tips UDF

• Rouge GoogleBot: a full screen animation

• ASciTE text editor: a text editor written in autoit

Warning: Posts by this user are subject to change or may disappear without notice.

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#8 ·  Posted

Use recuva. Download it at www.piriform.com

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