Setback one!
Gamemaker did it again! ๐
corrupted my project when loading a background file and for some reason all the backups are just empty. no content. Good news is I learned from this last time and have been renaming and saving to prevent this from being catastrophic. Gonna see what I can do to save the last couple of hours but luckily, it was mostly asset creation so I should be ok 
Anyone else had this before?