title: How to fix flutter corrupted files?
body: <p>Sorry in advance, I am fairly new to flutter and my explanation is not 
  very concise.</p>
  
  <p>I am having a problem with corrupted flutter files. My project was fine 
  until a while ago when some of the files corrupted I think. I think it 
  might have to do with me changing the projects file name to make 
  different versions but because of this some of files have gone into some 
  strange format.</p>
  
  <p>Any help would be appreciated to either fix this or prevent it in the 
  future!</p>
  
  <pre><code>Doctor summary (to see all details, run flutter doctor -v):
  [√] Flutter (Channel master, v1.10.3-pre.66, on Microsoft Windows 
  [Version 10.0.18362.356], locale en-ZA)
  
  [√] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 
  28.0.3)
  [√] Chrome - develop for the web
  [√] Android Studio (version 3.5)
  [√] Android Studio (version 3.5)
  [√] VS Code (version 1.35.0)
  [√] Connected device (2 available)
  
  • No issues found!
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is an example of what the code looks like</p>
  
  <pre><code>{"isEntrypoint":true,"deps":[],"parts": 
  ["quiver|lib/src/iterables/concat.dart",
  "quiver|lib/src/iterables/count.dart", 
  "quiver|lib/src/iterables/cycle.dart",
  "quiver|lib/src/iterables/enumerate.dart 
  ","quiver|lib/src/iterables/infinite_iterable.dart"
   ,"quiver|lib/src/iterables/ 
   merge.dart","quiver|lib/src/iterables/min_max.dart"
   ,"quiver|lib/src/iterables/partition.dart"
   ,"quiver|lib/src/iterables/generating_iterable.dart"
   ,"quiver|lib/src/iterables/range.dart"
   ,"quiver|lib/src/iterables/zip.dart"]
   ,"conditionalDeps":[],"sdkDeps":["collection"],"hasMain":false}  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Another file</p>
  
  <pre><code>// This is a generated file; do not edit or check into version control.
  FLUTTER_ROOT=C:\flutter\flutter
  FLUTTER_APPLICATION_PATH=C:\Users\parko\AndroidStudioProjects\flutter_web
  FLUTTER_TARGET=lib\main.dart
  FLUTTER_BUILD_DIR=build
  SYMROOT=${SOURCE_ROOT}/../build\ios
  FLUTTER_FRAMEWORK_DIR=C:\flutter\flutter\bin\cache\artifacts\engine\ios
  FLUTTER_BUILD_NAME=1.0.0
  FLUTTER_BUILD_NUMBER=1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Pubspec.yaml file</p>
  
  <pre><code>  {"isEntrypoint":
      false,"deps": 
     ["crypto|lib/src/digest.dart","crypto|lib/src/digest_sink.dart"
     ,"crypto|lib/src/hash.dart"],"parts":[],"conditionalDeps": 
    [],"sdkDeps": 
    ["convert","typed_data"],"hasMain":false}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It seems like random code so I assume it corrupted but hopefully 
  someone will be able to help me restore my older code.:)<br>
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gives me this error</p>
  
  <pre><code> Error: No pubspec.yaml file found.
   This command should be run from the root of your Flutter project.
   Do not run this command from the root of your git clone of Flutter.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I don't know if it would contribute to the problem but every time I open 
  certain projects it gives me this error</p>
  
  <pre><code>Load Settings
  Cannot load settings from file 
  C:\Users\parko\AndroidStudioProjects\
  exp_appv0.3\.idea\exp_appv0.3.iml'': ParseError at [row,col]:[1,1]
  Message: Content is not allowed in prolog.
  Please correct the file content
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have tried to fix this problem but so far I have had no success. 
  Thanks
  -Matt</p>
  
  <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong>
  I switched from Android Studio to Visual Studio code and the files for the project were returned back to normal, I am still not quite sure why this happened but switching from Android Studio to Visual Studio code fixed the problem.</p>