[Solved] SciTE crashed after blackout

[NMS]

Hello,

I was wondering if it's possible to recover the script file after a power outage, which happened as I was working in the editor.
It seems there are correct numbers of characters in it (138249) however they're all replaced with "NULL" in one line. File size identical as well.

I have a backup from couple of days ago but that's a lot of progress lost...

[Nine]

Sorry to hear you have lost a good amount of work.  But there are 3 rules in programming :

1- Backup

2- Backup

3- Backup

In Scite do CTRL-1, you can create automatic backup of your files.  Nevertheless, how long does it take to do a Ctrl-S every now and then ?

 

 

[NMS]

Unfortunately that's the thing, I always do Ctrl+S. So supposedly the file would recover to that point but it didn't. Perhaps at the exact time as I was saving the blackout happened. But the save time is around 3 seconds so it's too close to tell...

Anyway, thanks for the response.

[argumentum]

7 minutes ago, NMS said:

Perhaps at the exact time as I was saving the blackout happened.

..in my early experience, I came to realize the importance of clean, stable electricity for the PC and monitor. Not the printer or speakers or anything else. ...well, networking and what not but the main is the PC and monitor.
If you can afford it, do get a UPS. Is a good investment.

[Jos]

That symptom sounds like a corrupted File Allocation Table. Did you have to do a CHECKDISK after the crash?

When using the  separate SciTE4AutoIt3 full version, a backup can be created of the previous version defined by:

backup.files=10
backup.directory=$(FileDir)\backup

so you would have the last 10 version in the backup subdirectory.

Jos 

[NMS]

25 minutes ago, Jos said:

Did you have to do a CHECKDISK after the crash?

No I did not.

I'm using Lite 3.5.4 at the moment, but this gives me an idea to simply write a simple function to copy the file every time I run it if it's not compiled.