[texworks] texworks NOT working

[Arthur Mutambara]

 the pdf is still there, what could have erased the tex file? is there any chance of recovery
    On Thursday, April 15, 2021, 11:58:19 AM GMT+2, Arthur Rosendahl <arthur.reutenauer at normalesup.org> wrote:  
 
 On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 09:46:47AM +0000, Arthur Mutambara via texworks wrote:
>  but the memory is 1.88Mb. how can it be empty

  It is not empty.  It contains only bytes of value zero, the integer 0
(almost two millions of them, as you noted).  The file is corrupted.
It contains no useful information, except that its size in bytes
(1,977,307) may be an indication of how big the original file was.

  It is extremely unlikely that it was TeXworks that corrupted the file,
or that it was corrupted over email.  You must have done something at
some point that resulted in your file being overwritten with zero-value
bytes.

    Best,

        Arthur
  
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