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Other Game Creation => Program Troubleshooting => Topic started by: oblivious12123 on July 30, 2011, 06:33:06 PM
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Hi guys, I've been working on a project. I save every 20-or-so minutes to make sure I don't lose much data if it crashes. Windows Explorer (The system, not the internet) crashed and I had to start it up again. After this, I found that I'd completely lost the project I was on, along with a game save file that I was running at the same time. I had been working a long time on it and it's just gone. Is there any way to recover files? Any way at all?
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The thing that you technically should do when you lose files is refrain from copying any files onto your hard drive (viewing webpages that get cached, downloading files, moving or copying files) and shut down your computer. But since you probably don't have another computer to swap your hard drive into or have a recovery CD handy, you'll just have to gamble and use an undelete program like Recuva (http://www.piriform.com/recuva/download/standard).
Once you install it, do a scan for 'Other' and then select the directory where everything vanished (or the directory before where the folder once was). If there is anything recoverable, the program will find it.
However, it sounds really weird that everything went missing just from a Windows Explorer crash.
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Thanks, but it didn't work.
All I lost were files I had open. I am stumped on how it happened. It was a recurring problem where every minute or two Windows Explorer would stop responding so I'd have to click restart the program up to the point it just said Close program.
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Windows Explorer shouldn't have removed your files you were working on, or even mess up your game. RMXP can run fine without Explorer being open, so it wouldn't have caused an error with that, either. I would look around more to see if you accidentally moved the folder or something. I have never heard of explorer simply deleting files because it crashes. I would definitely want to look more into the problem of your "recurring problem" with explorer closing. It sounds like you have some serious issues with a virus or incompatible program/driver. Usually an incompatibility problem will result in a crash of that program or a BSOD, so I would pick on the virus.