[SOLVED] Something terrible happened

[winterwulf]

I was editing my skin, notepad++ (NEVER GONNA USE IT AGAIN) crashed and it erased all the hundreds of lines from my skin file...

The last backu I have from it is just a scratch..

The skin is still running with rainmeter open...is there somehow to recover it? please help me =(((

[jsmorley]

No, I'm sorry, but nothing in Rainmeter can help with that. Rainmeter doesn't store the entire skin file in memory in order to use it. If you have the skin on the screen, then you obviously saved it and refreshed Rainmeter, and Notepad++ isn't going to delete the file contents that you already saved. I'm not sure I follow what happened, since it doesn't make sense to me. If the skin is running using the code you wrote, the ONLY way that can happen is if you saved it. Are you suggesting that Notepad++ crashed in the middle of a save, and deleted the file contents?

[winterwulf]

Are you suggesting that Notepad++ crashed in the middle of a save, and deleted the file contents?

Thats exactly what happened. It erased all the lines I had writen in that file... it was all blank
Man it is a sad day... not even dropbox had the last saved version, I was working on it for more than a week..

Lesson learned tho.

thanks for the fast reply

[Active Colors]

Thats exactly what happened. It erased all the lines I had writen in that file... it was all blank
Man it is a sad day... not even dropbox had the last saved version, I was working on it for more than a week..

Lesson learned tho.

thanks for the fast reply

I know how you feel. I used to loose not only lines of codes but entire projects I worked for months. I had different causes every time but it never happened with Notepad++. Using this software since I got my first PC.
Good luck!

[jsmorley]

I know how you feel. I used to loose not only lines of codes but entire projects I worked for months. I had different causes every time but it never happened with Notepad++. Using this software since I got my first PC.
Good luck!

Yeah, I'm not even sure I can remember Notepad++ ever crashing in all the years I have used it. What a bad deal, crashing during a save and truncating the file contents. These computers are not here to stay...

[eclectic-tech]

@winterwulf

That used to happen to me also... I know your pain!

There is nothing you can do to retrieve your current lose, but since that incident, I activated the Backup option in Notepad++ and have never lost another projects.

Do this to save you from this misery again...
Here is a screenshot of my preference settings:

backup.png

[winterwulf]

Thanks guys! I ended rewriting it that night while I had the idea (sort of) in mind yet... finished at almost 3AM...to wake up today at 5 was harsh lol


eclectic-tech, Thanks for the hint, gonna do it right now!