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Recovering a corrupted .txt file

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Mar 15, 202633731 views
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Well, my system crashed as I was saving a text file. When I reopened it, the data was unreadable (shows up as a bunch of ascii NULL characters) I'm guessing that there was a bit or two missing at the beginning of the file or something, and that most of the data is still intact if I just shifted thi…

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This answer is for posterity -- I was in a similar situation today and successfully recovered the file. A .txt file I was composing (in Notepad++, but that's beside the point) became corrupted after a lock-up/system freeze. It was the only file to d…

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