I lost my CSS Codes of my important Website, Why?

Question

Very weird, i had opened notepad ++ and working on my CSS codes for my website, suddenly my little niece unplugged the computer, when i re-start the computer and opened again the same CSS codes file in notepad ++, so all i am seeing is "NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL" there is no codes, all lost.

I opened the same CSS codes file in other editors and its all empty no codes..

is there a way to fix it, because it was my hard work. and what can be the cause?

Thank you.

Answer 1

If the power was lost while you were writing to the disk, it may well have only partially written the file - destroying the contents. I hope you have a backup, unfortunately. As it's a website, has it ever been online? You might strike lucky searching your browser's cache. (My FF cache is in C:\Users[UserName]\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles[Profile String].default\Cache).

You're seeing the fancy [NULL] codes because np++ tries to show unprintable characters.

(and for what it's worth, I totally feel your pain. My little sister once accidentally wiped an entire OS, back in the day we booted from floppies :()

Answer 2

most likely something went bad when saving, and its messed up. I'd prolly give recurva or some other file recovery software a shot, and hope for the best. Failing which... in future, you might want to consider using dropbox - it has some version control, and would backup your work as you save it

Answer 3

is there a way to fix it

Restore from a backup.

what can be the cause?

Power failure.