My startup file is screwed up?

[AnomanderRake]

Everything in the file was replaced by this:

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No other file is like that, and I have no idea what could have possibly happened to it .
It’s like that on both notepad and notepad++.

[AStraali]

Have you checked if the encoding is messed up? Or perhaps about character sets?

[AnomanderRake]

I have absolutely no idea what any of that means.

[Snoe]

Don’t take my word for it, but its possible that you’re file was ‘compressed’ during a save. or that possibly there’s a language error.

I googled ‘Notepad ++ gibberish’ if you want to look in that direction.