Question / Help Error Parsing X FIle

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theSHHAS

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Hello, I have streamed like fine for a year but suddenly while trying to start OBS today ON MY BIRTHDAY it doesn't work anymore!
I was having an OK 21st birthday but then it got completely ruined with this obs crash because I was really looking forward to a birthday stream!

when I open obs it just says "error parsing x file" and some file name.
The problem is that it's the scenes file and I looked into it quicky with notepad and all the scenes but one seems to be gone and I put a lot of work into my scenes!

I have been streaming siriously every day for like a year and have 20-30 scenes with hours of work and effort put in them.
I tried to save the file to my desktop and then start the program again and it works but I have nothing left. many hours of blood sweat and tears went into making those scenes and I don't want all that to go away, much less on my birthday because it's now completely ruined.

is there any way I can fix this without loosing all my scenes?
Please I need help as soon as possible!!!

Edit: I looked into the file a little more and there's an HUGE chunk of just spaces where it seems more text should be but none of it is visible.
 
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Damn that sucks. To stay safe in the future would regularly saving a backup of the appdata folder be enough or could files get corrupt in the installation folder too?
 
Generally file corruption only happens to files that are in use during a crash or power outage, so a backup of the OBS appdata folder should be safe.
 
Thank you for the response. I randomly happened across a horoscope today and it said that I should feel confident about trying something new today. So I guess I'll start working to build up some new scenes tomorow. Thanks for the help.
 
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