But these agencies also uses the 'proper deletion' in which the first step is. You know to read data from borders of HDD paths. Maybe CIA or some other agency have some tools. If the file would not have been overwritten, you could use some tools for restoring files.

If the file is not in some previous restore point from windows, the chance of recovering it is +-0.

I wonder if that file can be restored in other ways Not sure whether the folder is backed up. It seems like when you executed the steam after crash, it detected file with later save date and overwrote the server copy with your corrupted.ĭo you have the windows recovery enabled? If so, previous recovery points may contain the data. You said the steam contains the same data. Simply because the process which overwrote the file used same parts of the drive. When somethig overwrite the end of the file, you cannot use methods for recovering for example deleted files. So it seems like something overwrote end of your file during the crash My ends with 'PS4Compliant':true}' string. Compared it with my file and my file does not have zeroes at the end. I dont have insight to what should be inside the file. Hate to break you, but last 20% is filled by zeroes.

The long dark save files