I lost all the data in a huge mlt file

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Linux - Steam Deck OS

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23.05.07

I have no idea what went wrong. I poured a huge amount of hours into this project and I stupidly did not have a backup. The screen froze up for about 20 seconds and then it crashed, which I’m used to, I usually just open it back up and it auto-saved or, worst case scenario, it deletes a little bit of my progress. But this is different. This time, I opened up the file and 100% of the stuff I was working on is gone, replaced by a 10-minute project with no tracks and no content. If there’s any way I could recover the old file or look at the history of the file and restore an old version, that would be life-saving. Here’s the busted file if you want to look at it.

AI Dungeon Part 3 Part 1.mlt (924 Bytes)

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That is frustrating and disappointing. Unfortunately, there is nothing hidden in the project file you uploaded that can be recovered.

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Thanks for replying anyway

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Ok apparently when I first found out that mlt files are just text, I just so happened to send this exact file to my friend in text form, so I mostly got it back. I think it was divine intervention.

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While you’re editing, you can at any time, save your current progress to a new file by doing Save As.
2023-06-03_20-31-50
This creates a new file that you name, saving your current progress to it, and no longer writes/saves to the former project file.

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How did you extract the text and rebuild the mlt file? I would like to know if it ever happens to me.

I have had some pretty scary digital data losses and miraculously recovered them which had to have been divine intervention.