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It seems like my tex file, for some reason now is blank...

I just woke up and now it`s blank. Sadly i took no backups of the files

Is there any way to get my tex file back, as all the other files are intact?

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No, you can't get it back from the generated files, except for copying text from the PDF and redoing the formatting. Check if your text editor/IDE saved a backup file. – Andrey Vihrov Nov 14 '11 at 10:03
**** are there any way to automaticaly take backups of my files then? I am already synching them with dropbox, but that does not help here – N3buchadnezzar Nov 14 '11 at 10:11
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I would recommend to use version-control for your documents in the future. I'm personally where happy with Mercurial which is easily set-up, but there are also many others (SVN, Git, ...). – Martin Scharrer♦ Nov 14 '11 at 10:13
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You mentioned that you are using Dropbox. Please go to the dropbox web interface and navigate to the folder of your tex file. On the right hand side of the file you will see a small downward arrow. Click it and select previous versions. There you will see the last 10(?) versions of the file. Good luck. – Andy Nov 14 '11 at 10:24
Dropbox is not very good to me, I have no ida why. Before asking here I checked my drobox, and it said no earlier files had been made. Ofcourse I had saved and updated the file many times. Seems like dropbox does not like me – N3buchadnezzar Nov 14 '11 at 10:39

closed as too localized by Andrey Vihrov, egreg, Joseph Wright♦ Nov 14 '11 at 10:48

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