R script suddenly becomes empty (0 KB)

RStudio IDE
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I am just going to pull up at least three main posts that claim a problem that also happened to me, but which have not yet been useful for my problem (i: R script becomes empty (0KB) after saving, ii: R code file 0 kb after saving with previous version of R, and iii: R Code file is becoming 0 KB after saving . The R script files suddenly become empty (0 KB). I have tried installing different versions of R and RStudio, but nothing solved my problems, not even when I tried using a text editor. RHistory and .RData do not help either.
I have just lost a very important code. Any help is more than welcome.

2

What versions of R and RStudio are you running?

R.Version()
and
RStudio.Version()

will tell you.

3

Rstudio: 2024.12.0.456
R: 4.4.1

4

At least, for the time being, your operating system should provide you with a means to restore a previous version of the file, or restore a backup?
Using a private GIT repository might help too.

5

There is no previous version or backup available, unfortunately.

6

I'm guessing that perhaps your system is not using an English locale. Is it possible that you're not using UTF-8 encoding for text files?

7

I am using UTF-8 encoding.