Mono corrupted D files

[AsmMan via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 4 September 2014 at 02:22:27 UTC, Sativa wrote:
> On Wednesday, 3 September 2014 at 21:13:31 UTC, AsmMan wrote:
>> Something very strange happened 2/3 days ago. Two of my D 
>> files of the project I was working on got all values replaced 
>> by 0 (that's what I seen rather D code if I open the file with 
>> a hex debugger). The file size of both files keep intact 
>> although. And no, I have no backup of these files. I had a old 
>> copy of it on a external hard drive but I needed to format it 
>> to use in something else and didn't put my files before it...
>>
>> Instead of turn off my windows machine I always hirbenate it 
>> and left open all stuff and then I just back quickly to point 
>> where I was on. That day, when I logged on system I noticied 
>> first non-usual behavior: the machine looked like I had 
>> restarted it instead of hibernate. All stuff I left open 
>> (including mono) wasn't open anymore. I find it strage but 
>> moved on. But to my surprise when I open mono, the "recent 
>> projects" always available on left menu bar was empty. Just 
>> like I had installed mono not used yet. I open my project 
>> directly by clicking on "open" and navigating to folder of 
>> projec and then I see the two of main project files with a 
>> values set to zero.
>>
>> Can some Mono expected help me?
>> My question is: can I recovery these files? or what remains to 
>> me is cry?
>> restore the system didn't helped (and I neither expected to 
>> but I tried)
>>
>> Not sure if it is related: that day my machine had no a 
>> network connection.
>
> You have probably already lost the data, but it is possible 
> that a different copy of the file is located on the drive.

How can I check it?

>If  you've restored a backup you are probably screwed.

Which backup are you talking about? the windows' native one? if 
so, I didn't because it isn't turned on.

> Sometimes programs will store files in a temp directory or when 
> they save the file it won't overwrite the old one, but delete 
> it and make a new one.

did you mean to I delete the .d file and open mono and it may 
make a new copy from temporary directory?

> These can be recovered in many cases as long as the data hasn't 
> be overwritten by other files. They may not exist on the file 
> system but in the free space, you have to use an undelete 
> program that does a low level scan of the file system for 
> deleted files.

What software do you recommend? I tried recuva but it didn't show 
even a single d file...