Saving corrupts css file.

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Issue by nfwade
Saturday Nov 24, 2018 at 02:13 GMT
Originally opened as adobe/brackets#14599

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Prerequisites

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Description

I saved a simple css file and the next time I opened the project I got the error "Unknown encoding format." If I open the file with any other editor it just contains gibberish on a single line.

I've used notepad++ to try and convert it/open it, and I've tried to use file recovery utilities. I have no idea what happened but here are 4 other issues with the same problem:

adobe/brackets#14449
adobe/brackets#14549
adobe/brackets#14347
adobe/brackets#13665

I'd just like advice for how to get the data back.

Steps to Reproduce

I don't know how to reproduce it. I'm not even sure what happened.

Expected behavior: I expected the file to be fine.

Actual behavior: It's corrupted.

Versions

Windows 10 Home
Release 1.13 build 1.13.0-17696

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Comment by nfwade
Sunday Nov 25, 2018 at 00:57 GMT

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Update

The file is empty:

So there's no hope of fixing the BOM or encoding.

One last hope—does brackets (by chance) have a cache of the file?

Thank you!

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Comment by nfwade
Thursday Dec 20, 2018 at 20:01 GMT

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Update: Never heard anything back, neither did the 4 others listed above. I went back to Atom.

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Comment by shubhsnov
Friday Jan 04, 2019 at 09:12 GMT

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The file was corrupted. And there is no cache from where you can recover an already saved file. I tried to reproduce the issue several times, even with other types of files, and force quitting the application, but it didn't work.

Can you think of anything else which might help us to figure out what exactly went wrong?

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Comment by rupali317
Saturday Jan 12, 2019 at 06:54 GMT

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@nfwade there is a pull request adobe/brackets#13477 , which fixes 5 bugs. These closed bugs talk about similar problem. Perhaps you can go through the discussion and see if it helps you.