I woke up early this morning to rush on my illustration work only to be greeted by an ERROR message from Adobe Illustrator. Half of the file is gone. I mean, some of the illustration in the file is ‘gone’ (including the character design holding promotional bags) while the layout design is still there. One of the layer is ‘gone’ too. But when I had Ctrl + O and click on the file, I can see the complete illustration in the small screenshot. All I have is a broken AI file and I didn’t save in pdf format too.

Can’t understand why. I’ve asked Google for solution, tried but can’t work. There goes my hard work until the wee hour last night. I should just go sleep earlier and do it today. Sigh. Gotta pick myself up from this denial stage to acceptance stage. I better start working on it all over again than wasting more time trying to recover the file.

Before that, let me bang my head to the wall and cry out loud first.