I have been working on a project in wordpad for several months. Today, when I was doing some editing, I encountered a strange problem. I'm not sure what I hit but suddenly little square characters popped up where I was typing and I was unable to remove them. I freaked and closed the document to try and erase whatever I did. Now I am unable to open the file! When I was prompted if I wanted to save changes, I was sure I hit "no" but now I'm not so sure. I've tried opening it in every other program I have and I get a message that the file has been corrupted or it simply won't load at all. When I try to reopen the file in Wordpad, it just sits there and I get a percentage of loading but it won't load all the way and then freezes. This file is very important to me and I know I'm a fool for never backing it up.
I looked at repair file programs but most of them seemed geared towards Word Doc's, this is just an rtf file. Does anyone know how I can possibly save my work? I would very much appreciate any help anyone could offer. Thank you, -Kris