# Anyone know of a way to recover a text file?

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**Created:** [December 4, 2008, 8:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/anyone-know-of-a-way-to-recover-a-text-file/276897 "2008-12-04T20:08:48Z")\
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I recently had a file corrupt while saving it to a network drive. The file size is reading the same, but I cannot view the contents of the file (notepad shows a bunch of spaces).

NVM, turns out it failed to save correctly to the drive and emptied.