Like you haven't been told before about 100 times.
I got out of the habit of making backups and just had a power surge/outage while working on a game I had months into. Now the aslx file just says NUL about 150,000 times. Bummed yes but now I can rewrite a better version from scratch.
Look at me being positive...and backing up again.
It’s a bummer when that happens. I always make incremental saves and save to Dropbox.
Have you tried opening the .aslx file with NotePad or similar? Has all the text gone?
it just has:
nul nul nul nulnulnulnulnulnulnulnulnulnulnul nul nul nul nul nul nulnulnulnulnulnulnulnulnulnulnul nul nul
I'm so sorry about your game. :/ You didn't have a backup anywhere? I freaked out when I lost a couple of days worth of information once, I can't imagine months of work just completely gone.
Anonynn.
Maybe buy an uninterruptible power supply (UPS). I would yell and scream for days if I lost months of work.
Using a laptop even as the transformer protects against spikes and the battery against outages.