Make a backup of your game
Forgewright
28 Jan 2019, 17:18Like you haven't been told before about 100 times.
I got out of the habit of making backups and just had a power surge/outage while working on a game I had months into. Now the aslx file just says NUL about 150,000 times. Bummed yes but now I can rewrite a better version from scratch.
Look at me being positive...and backing up again.
Silver
28 Jan 2019, 18:36It’s a bummer when that happens. I always make incremental saves and save to Dropbox.
DavyB
29 Jan 2019, 19:23Have you tried opening the .aslx file with NotePad or similar? Has all the text gone?
Forgewright
30 Jan 2019, 02:14it just has:
nul nul nul nulnulnulnulnulnulnulnulnulnulnul nul nul nul nul nul nulnulnulnulnulnulnulnulnulnulnul nul nul
mrangel
30 Jan 2019, 17:34Ouch. NTFS?
Anonynn
31 Jan 2019, 02:47I'm so sorry about your game. :/ You didn't have a backup anywhere? I freaked out when I lost a couple of days worth of information once, I can't imagine months of work just completely gone.
Anonynn.
K.V.
31 Jan 2019, 12:53Is this (perhaps) a game you've previously emailed to me?
If so, and you don't have the old message in your SENT messages, I could maybe find something on my end. . .
Dcoder
01 Feb 2019, 11:46Maybe buy an uninterruptible power supply (UPS). I would yell and scream for days if I lost months of work.
Silver
01 Feb 2019, 16:05Using a laptop even as the transformer protects against spikes and the battery against outages.
Forgewright
02 Feb 2019, 02:19K.V, no the one I sent you is an older different game.