Can anyone help recover my script?

[azureXtwilight]

Firtst; the problem is starting from line 1872 the codes become null all over and over again!
What has happened?
Can you save my script?

Here's the traceback though...

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I'm sorry, but an exception occured while executing your Ren'Py
script.

TypeError: suite() argument 1 must be string without null bytes, not str

While compiling python block starting at line 11872 of D:\renpy-6.8.1\Fantasia_Requiem of the Abyss/game/script.rpy.

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

  File "D:\renpy-6.8.1\renpy\bootstrap.py", line 247, in bootstrap
  File "D:\renpy-6.8.1\renpy\main.py", line 171, in main
  File "D:\renpy-6.8.1\renpy\script.py", line 477, in load_script
  File "D:\renpy-6.8.1\renpy\script.py", line 155, in __init__
  File "D:\renpy-6.8.1\renpy\script.py", line 366, in load_appropriate_file
  File "D:\renpy-6.8.1\renpy\script.py", line 333, in load_file
  File "D:\renpy-6.8.1\renpy\script.py", line 426, in update_bytecode
  File "D:\renpy-6.8.1\renpy\python.py", line 218, in py_compile_exec_bytecode
  File "D:\renpy-6.8.1\renpy\python.py", line 193, in py_compile
  File "compiler\transformer.pyo", line 52, in parse
  File "compiler\transformer.pyo", line 129, in parsesuite
TypeError: suite() argument 1 must be string without null bytes, not str

While compiling python block starting at line 11872 of D:\renpy-6.8.1\Fantasia_Requiem of the Abyss/game/script.rpy.

Ren'Py Version: Ren'Py 6.8.1a

Here's the script! Please recover it!

script.rpy

(591.67 KiB) Downloaded 103 times

[luminarious]

I'm sorry, but this seems really quite lost. You don't back up very often, do you?

[azureXtwilight]

Yeah , anyway, I knew cybeat once had the same problem. I thought pytom was able to do something....

[PyTom]

Do you have the old .rpyc file? If so, please send it to me, and I can recover the script.

[azureXtwilight]

Here you go!
Thanks!

http://www.mediafire.com/?tdmztty4y2j

[PyTom]

Here's what I was able to recover. Note that this is generated from the intermediate data structure Ren'Py stores, so comments and formatting will be changed.

[azureXtwilight]

But there are still the nulls after the 1221 line...

[PyTom]

I'm sorry, but this is what was in the .rpyc file.

[azureXtwilight]

I guess I have to start over, then...
*epic sigh*
What causes all the null thingies?

[pinkmouse]

I'm really sorry that you've lost some work. I know it's bolting the door after the horse has bolted, but I find that this free program is really good:
http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter5.html

It's a word processor that's designed to work with lots of little short scenes, and it automatically backs up what you're writing. It does it both while you're actually writing, and also a dated auto backup of the entire project every session. I use it for writing the first draft (and redrafts) and then paste it into that Java Renpy editor. (I find that trying to write directly in the editor doesn't work for me because I get distracted by all the code and "stage directions" that have to be added.)

Anyway, good luck and keep going!

[Mihara]

The nulls can occur for numerous reasons, starting with system/program crash while saving the file, continuing on to a bug in the editor being used, (that one would be rare, but if it's jEdit and your java interpreter is borked, I imagine it's possible) and ending with various kinds of disk corruption, recoverable and unrecoverable. It is tricky to tell which occurred without knowing more details about when it happened and what you were doing at the time, and whether it happens to any other files anywhere. Having had multiple copies beforehand is the only practical way of getting it back, as most other methods are high wizardry that requires direct access to your hardware.

For another way of bolting the door after the horse that does not involve using a specialised fiction writing editor like yWriter (which is still handy, but for other reasons, and can be used concurrently with this method) see Dropbox - a free online backup and versioning solution, which works nicely with RenPy if you simply set up the project directory inside your dropbox folder.

[VenusEclipse]

I guess I have to start over, then...
*epic sigh*
What causes all the null thingies?

You don't mean you have to start all over from the very beginning, do you? T-T