Computer Crashed Now every scene gives Parse Error

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4.2.1

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My computer Crashed, don’t know what caused it never crashed before. I was working on a VR project, there were no errors before the crash, but now every scene i try to open gives a popup “Error while loading file ''filename.tscn”". and error messages popup in output:

modules/openxr/editor/openxr_interaction_profile_editor.cpp:260 - Parameter “profile_def” is null.
scene/resources/resource_format_text.cpp:1620 - res://Player/player.tscn:1 - Parse Error:
scene/resources/resource_format_text.cpp:1047 - res://Player/player.tscn:1 - Parse Error:
scene/resources/resource_format_text.cpp:838 - Condition “error != OK” is true.
scene/resources/resource_format_text.cpp:1620 - res://Scenes/Targets/target.tscn:1 - Parse Error:
scene/resources/resource_format_text.cpp:1047 - res://Scenes/Targets/target.tscn:1 - Parse Error:
scene/resources/resource_format_text.cpp:838 - Condition “error != OK” is true.
scene/resources/resource_format_text.cpp:1620 - res://World/title_scene.tscn:1 - Parse Error:
scene/resources/resource_format_text.cpp:1047 - res://World/title_scene.tscn:1 - Parse Error:
scene/resources/resource_format_text.cpp:838 - Condition “error != OK” is true.
scene/resources/resource_format_text.cpp:1620 - res://World/world.tscn:1 - Parse Error:
scene/resources/resource_format_text.cpp:1047 - res://World/world.tscn:1 - Parse Error:
scene/resources/resource_format_text.cpp:838 - Condition “error != OK” is true.
scene/resources/resource_format_text.cpp:1047 - res://World/title_scene.tscn:1 - Parse Error:
Failed loading resource: res://World/title_scene.tscn. Make sure resources have been imported by opening the project in the editor at least once.
editor/editor_data.cpp:626 - Index p_idx = 1 is out of bounds (edited_scene.size() = 1).

I tried reimporting the project but didn’t help. Other projects on the same drive still works, so the SSD is fine. Did i just lose my project? I have no idea what any of these errors mean. A quick online search didn’t help much as most of the parse errors has something to do with the scripts, but i can open my scripts.

Any help to recover my project would be apricated.

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You didn’t use any version control system…? That sucks.

However, it doesn’t seem that you lost your project. I think that parse errors are usually related to invalid file paths or invalid child node names. For example, a path to a script file has changed but for some reason the scene file has the old path. You can try to fix errors by opening the scene files (tscn) in a text editor and changing any incorrect paths/names.

Before you do that, at least back up everything to prevent further problems. But don’t begin to rely on backups in the future, start using version control asap.

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Thanks for the reply. I opened the scene files in notepad ++ and regular notepad, to my horror every single .tscn is empty even though they still have sizes like in KB , somehow every single scene file in the project got corrupted. a freak accident I guess.

At least I still got all the scripts and models/textures so I guess i will start rebuilding each scene :sob: I’m also learning about version control to start using that asap.

I’ll wait for a bit to see if someone ells have something to add, then close post.

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Probably what’s keeping the project a float is whatever is cached in the .godot folder.

You should go to each scene in the editor and force a save on it and see if it will repopulate the tscn file.

I think there are gd scripts out there that you can run to do this programmatically. But I couldn’t tell you where to find one off the top of my head.