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An .ascx user control page opens up as hex?

I am not sure if this is related to this weird behavior I'm experiencing: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1229811/why-is-my-asp-net-mvc-project-saving-several-copies-of-itself

But I'm completely stumped.

My solution (asp.net mvc application) currently resides on the thumbdrive (cruzer micro 4gb), all the files were fine as of last night, this morninig I open one of a .ascx, and God almighty, it loads itself into the hex editor, why? what the heck?

I open this same user control in notepad and it's full of crazy random characters.

Somehow it turns itself, a plain text file, into a binary file?

Anyone run into this? I don't have backup (my fault, I should know better), is this reversable?

A: 

It could be that you saved the file and somehow triggered a different encoding to be used.

I believe I've seen something similar a couple of times.

Does it compile anyway? If not then it's not readable by VS either and you're probably screwed.

User  2009-08-05 14:16:01
Yes the solution still compiles. The page displays, but the section that contains the .ascx shows random characters. I worked on it last night, save normally. Humm...if a different encoding was triggered somehow, it surely was un-beknown to me.
wliao  2009-08-05 15:12:50

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