.tex file is null after laptop battery died

I am writing a thesis in TeXstudio and while working today (during which I saved my work several times) my laptop battery was lower than I thought and my laptop died. Thinking nothing of it, I plugged the power cable in and rebooted.

After the reboot, I opened TeXstudio again to find that my document seems to have been corrupted somehow. Screenshots of TeXstudio are below:

And here is a screenshot of notepad++ when opening there.

And here is what I get when trying to open the pdf.

This seems to make no sense. I had just saved minutes before my laptop died. Where is my work? I see online that TeXstudio doesn’t create backups by default (I have no .bak file), which I wish I would have known, but the app still shouldn’t have overwritten my work just because my laptop died. I accept responsibility for not having set up an auto-backup, but I am still furious and worried.

Here is what my directory looks like now:

My userappdatatemp..thesis.tex is also no help. Is my work gone or can I salvage it somehow?