My Renpy Script IS GONE

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My Renpy Script IS GONE

#1 Post by themagentatheory » Thu Jul 16, 2015 7:36 pm

I am so done, I am extremely stressed because I had been working on a visual novel for weeks now and suddenly when I go to open the script, Jedit loads, and there is nothing. blank. I really wish I saved a backup. If anyone knows what is going on please tell me.

I'm sorry, but errors were detected in your script. Please correct the
errors listed below, and try again.


File "game/script.rpy", line 1: expected statement.

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Re: My Renpy Script IS GONE

#2 Post by SundownKid » Thu Jul 16, 2015 8:05 pm

You could try opening Script.rpy with a different program like Notepad++ maybe? And then copying it to a new file?

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Re: My Renpy Script IS GONE

#3 Post by SinnyROM » Thu Jul 16, 2015 10:17 pm

Did you save it on your Dropbox, or Google Drive, or a similar cloud service? If you did you may be able to retrieve a previous version of the file, which you can find out by googling. If not I would give SundownKid's way a try.

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Re: My Renpy Script IS GONE

#4 Post by PyTom » Thu Jul 16, 2015 11:01 pm

Also, if you have a script.rpyc file, I might be able to recover much of the script from that. (Please back that file up right now, since Ren'Py might overwrite it.)
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Re: My Renpy Script IS GONE

#5 Post by themagentatheory » Sat Jul 18, 2015 4:53 pm

I decided not to mess with the file any longer. I'm going to restart the game from the beginning. At least I will be able to fix a lot of the storyboard.

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