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The contents of all my Ink files have been erased! Help!
Hello, hopefully someone can help me with this issue:
The contents of all my Ink files have been erased! When I open the file everything is blank, not a line of code. And the file size is also 0KB everywhere. I have several inky files in which I've written dialog for my Unity game. From one day to the next, the files were empty!
Has anyone had this error and gotten it fixed? How can something like that happen? What can I do?
I can't have written everything for nothing :(
Wow, this sucks. If your sure its nothing you did then you should be concerned that you may have a failing hard drive and you should back up what you have yet to loose. It's not for nothing, if you have never had something like this happen before you are going to be surprised how much better it is when you recreate it, as well how fast the process will go (since you have already worked out a lot of details). Also, you will learn to have a better appreciation of what it means when you hear thinks like "Make sure you have a backup". I learned this lesson a long time ago. I store all my data on a mirrored RAID that replicates daily to an offsite mirrored RAID. As well, most of my important projects are in git and pushed to github.
There is a reason RAID's are called inexpensive disks. Though they may cost hundreds of dollars, they are quite inexpensive in comparison to your time.
Thanks for your answer. I think I found the error by now: It was OneDrive.
OneDrive is integrated into my explorer. And my Inky files are always uploaded to the cloud when I save them. And I've observed that while OneDrive is uploading the files, it's deleting the content from e.g. 10KB to 0KB. My internet connection is very bad. Maybe it has something to do with that ... So I won't synchronize my project with OneDrive anymore, that's for sure.
But yes, I now always make external backups too. Sometimes you have to learn it the hard way, I guess.
I've had nothing but bad luck with one drive myself. It doesn't play nice with git and I have all my import stuff in git.
We had an issue while using inky to edit files which were stored on google drive. Saving any one file caused every file to be saved, which would back them up to google drive all at once. On top of that, though, inky was saving corrupted versions of the files. We ended up losing a day's worth of work. Now we use vscode to edit the ink files and all is fine.
