Suddendly I lost most dashboard STICKIES.

I believed informations I stored on dashboard stickies were safe. I removed all paper stickers around my MAC long ago.
Syddenly, after years of use, most of informations there disappeared not all of them but most. Stickies are still there... but empty :-(
Where are those information stored?
Any possibility to retrieve them? or are lost for ever ! How could that happened?
Few days ago, ALL icons on the desktop disappeared but I solved the problem only with a RESTART. It remain the unknow reason why it happend.
Firstly I thought about a virus but by Norton didn't find any.
Appreciate your help

Of course I know that HD are subject to damages, but you really think we could experience such a selective damage that evaporates part of a file?
and the system has automatically regrouped, patched the remaining portions of the file? ... some of the stickies content survived and not the oldest nor recent.

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Omar22 wrote:
I am aware of the other posts relating to this issue, however my stickies database file has only one line in it when opened with text editor. I had so much important info on my dashboard and angry really isnt the word.
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All 20 stickies are blank but in the correct position and the correct colour (which makes me even more angry as it was able to save this kind of inane info but not the most important thing (the contents).
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