Mono corrupted D files

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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.

Sounds like something crashed during the middle of a write. I 
would be surprised if this was related to Mono-D at all (I highly 
doubt that he changed the way files are saved). I'd also be 
concerned about the potential of a dying HDD, though that's less 
likely if this is the only thing that broke.