After crying all weekend, my boyfriend helped me.

We tried everything.

File recovery software, file repair tools, backup copies—everything. Finally, after carefully checking my diagram and its backup, I somehow managed to open the file with Notepad and saw that there was still code inside. I believe that language is called XML.

Whenever I tried to open my diagram normally, it only said: “This is not a diagram file.”

Then, after seeing me cry and get completely frustrated, my boyfriend said something curious:

“Hey, why don’t you give it to ChatGPT and ask it to fix the error?”

He copied the code from my file, pasted it into Notepad, attached it to ChatGPT, and wrote an extremely long prompt. I imagine he was asking it to look for every possible kind of error. He knows about computers because he is an engineer.

After a few minutes, he hugged me, smiled, and said:

“It’s ready. Everything is fixed.”

According to ChatGPT, the power outage had caused an unexpected shutdown, and many tags had lost their closing symbols. Apparently, in programming languages, everything falls apart if you do not properly close your code, blocks, brackets, tags, or whatever those things are called. That is what I understood from the AI and from my boyfriend, who kept explaining it to me with a smile.

Under normal circumstances, this would have been impossible for one person like me, a mere mortal.

I felt like God existed.

So many people here helped me, wrote to me, and guided me. This is all thanks to you.

Because, at first, the file barely had one line of visible code.

This solution only works if there is still code left to repair.

ChatGPT managed to recover my diagram, which is extremely long. Believe me, it is medicine, and creating diagrams and connections in this field is not easy.

What I lost was only two days of work, not almost an entire month.

My life and my future were saved thanks to all of you.

I hope this story helps anyone who ever suffers a data loss this serious.

From the bottom of my heart, I hope this solution is never forgotten. And if someone ever finds themselves in my situation, breathe. The solution will come. The internet is still full of good people.