Help needed Blueprints corrupt after CHKDSK

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  1. mark-o-solo

    mark-o-solo Lieutenant

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    Hi all,

    I have one corrupt .ebp in particular that I truly need recovered.
    Here is what happened: I ran a CHKDSK which seemingly messed up many files across my PC, including stuff independent of empyrion.
    Many BPs are no longer visible ingame, but their folders and files are still there. The BP I am looking for is my magnum opus SV and Ive spent many hours on it. The .ebp was just 1KB, clearly a corrupt file.
    What I did: I ran stellar recovery and got back:
    -the .ebp (50KB which seems right)
    -two corrupt savegames where I last had the .ebp
    The BP will still not open ingame, but the filesize reassures me that the info is there.

    Please, help me recover it, Ive attached it here.
    Thank you
     

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  2. mark-o-solo

    mark-o-solo Lieutenant

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    Here are also the corrupt savegames, where the BP was last edited. It was in an outdated ascension scenario.
     
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    jmcburn Rear Admiral

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    Sorry to say this, but there's nothing in there anymore, just 50kb of all zeros. If you don't have any other backup, I think, it's gone for good.

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    /jmc
     
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    Maye you still have a copy of it in the 'Empyrion - Galactic Survival/Saves/Blueprints/<YourID>/' folder?

    /jmc
     
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  5. mark-o-solo

    mark-o-solo Lieutenant

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    Ah man, friggin shame. What tool are you usting to check this ?
    No, thats what I am saying: the file in my BP folder was 1KB, that is certainly not it and that was corrupt to begin with. I have a few more files in the savegames I attached. I truly hope, one of them still has the info.
     
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    Was just some random hex editor I have installed (MX Hex-Editor).

    But even in Notepad++ you can see that there's just one line of 'nul' entries in it, if you enable 'show all non-printable characters'.

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    Aight, so my last hope is in the savegames. Does anyone know where BPs are stored in a savegame ?
     
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    Well it would appear like most files are a bunch of zeros.
    Boy, that hurts...a lot. I realized the file corruption too late - I must have overwritten the sectors in question...
    No more recovery possible. Goddamn, I hate Windows file management :(
     
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