I was working on a program for close to 9 hours and hadn't saved (stupid I know so don't tell me I should have saved) and when I clicked back to the sketch window to save all my work, it just closed. No error, no warnings, nothing. I was almost done my project and now I have nothing but the few lines of code I had at the beginning. I've looked through the forums for help and apparently there are no backup files that are autosaved. Is there anything I can do? I am new to programing and although there wasn't much work there, I don't really know how to do it all again, so I would have to re-learn everything I just worked on. Please, if there is ANYTHING you know of that could help me or explain WHY this has happened I would be very grateful.
I have Windows Vista if that helps/has anything to do with it.