Touhou 8 data reset

[Tsukishiro1]

When playing Touhou 8, I was trying to start a run over when the game stopped responding. I exited the game and went back in, but my save data was gone. I couldn't access Extra or Practice mode, my spell card list was empty, only my replays remained.

Could someone tell me how to restore the data? I was using the latest thcrap build too.

[Drake]

thcrap probably doesn't have anything to do with it. If you don't save backups, you're kind of in trouble. Save backups.

Recuva might potentially find a previous version of the score.dat file? But generally when a program has write-access and just writes over the file (rather than the user doing something like manually replacing the file or accidentally deleting it) it's basically gone. Touhou games will simply create a new score.dat on launch if it cannot read the old one (e.g. if it doesn't exist or is corrupt) so that is probably what happened.

[Tsukishiro1]

Recuva didn't seem to find anything. Could doing a System Restore help? I'm not that knowledgeable with computers, but I did set a restore point about 2 weeks ago.

[Drake]

Restore points only deal with important things like operating system files, settings, etc. You're out of luck there.

Windows 8 and on has a thing called File History that works to backup misc. files, but you have to opt into that and you'd probably already know if it were active.