I had a power outage and my kind of important text file got garbled.
All '[NUL]', when opening with Notepad 2 Portable. Is there any chance to recover it?
The bad news is, I accidentally have overwritten my backup from a few days back with the garbled one. Now I truly need to recover it. What (portable) app can you recommend for this job?
I tried all the different encodings in Notepad 2 (portable) to no avail. Maybe the proper solution - if there is any - is something completely different.
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You could try using one of the file recovery apps on the drive to see if there is another version of it somewhere on there.
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Thanks for the tip, John,
This actually helped (2nd answer, no permalink): https://superuser.com/questions/223677/recovering-a-corrupted-txt-file
I set Recuva to try to fix files which were not deleted. That's it!
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