Need help troubleshooting this error.

[OrganizedFellow]

I haven't worked on this site in months. Today when I opened my project, I am greeted with this cryptic error.

? ?

[wbmnfktr]

Looks like there is something wrong with your entire encoding. At least this looks like missing UTF-8 support.

Did you move the folder, upgraded the webserver, changed the PHP version or something of that kind?

[netcarver]

Do you have it in a backup you can compare it with? Or is it in a local git repo - if so, you can see what changed using git diff.

[OrganizedFellow]

32 minutes ago, netcarver said:

... a local git repo - if so, you can see what changed using git diff.

Git diff reports errors, uh oh ??

[OrganizedFellow]

43 minutes ago, wbmnfktr said:

Did you move the folder, upgraded the webserver, changed the PHP version or something of that kind?

This was relocated from my other PC/workstation to another. Nothing LAMP related is different, they are both identical.

I'm thinking something else is broken and may have to start over, as git is also throwing errors (see comment above).

[netcarver]

Time to go to backups I think.

[OrganizedFellow]

1 minute ago, netcarver said:

Time to go to backups I think.

Sadly git was my backup ?

I attempted several git checkout xxxxxx, but the error persists ? ?

 

[netcarver]

Did you push this repo anywhere? Github, gitlab, bitbucket, co-worker's machine etc? If so, you can pull the state back from the remote.

Edited to add, if there's corruption on your local drive, you might want to think about immediately backing up your data.

Try running git fsck.

[OrganizedFellow]

13 minutes ago, netcarver said:

Did you push this repo anywhere? Github, gitlab, bitbucket, co-worker's machine etc? If so, you can pull the state back from the remote.

Edited to add, if there's corruption on your local drive, you might want to think about immediately backing up your data.

Try running git fsck.

no luck.

i may have lost everything. damnit. next time, I should (and will) use remote git, i have both gitlab & github. Why I did not use them for my project? I DUNNO!

[wbmnfktr]

43 minutes ago, OrganizedFellow said:

This was relocated from my other PC/workstation to another.

Does that machine still exist?

Tried using another git client another OS?

[OrganizedFellow]

6 hours ago, wbmnfktr said:

Does that machine still exist?

Tried using another git client another OS?

The machine exists, but as an addicted DistroHopper, it's been wiped.

Client? I use the command line.

 

No worries amigo, I have accepted the loss and will restart the project again tomorrow ? LESSON LEARNED!

[bernhard]

3 hours ago, OrganizedFellow said:

Client? I use the command line.

 

No worries amigo, I have accepted the loss and will restart the project again tomorrow ? LESSON LEARNED!

VSCode makes working with git a breeze and now that github has unlimited private repos it's really great combination! 

https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/editor/versioncontrol
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=eamodio.gitlens

[wbmnfktr]

6 hours ago, OrganizedFellow said:

as an addicted DistroHopper

You shall not distrohop! ? 

Fingers crossed for the next time.

[netcarver]

@OrganizedFellow

Do think about backing up your drive now. If it's starting to fail, this could be an early warning for you. 

[OrganizedFellow]

2 hours ago, netcarver said:

@OrganizedFellow

Do think about backing up your drive now. If it's starting to fail, this could be an early warning for you. 

Thanks buddy. This is a new laptop, new SSDs, and new Laragon setup.

Previously I would code on my aging Thinkpad T420, so I had made that backup to USB flash drive (should've been to gitlab - dummyme).