No cases for a while

I've been playing SoD for a while now, decorating my apartment and completing side cases, but it's been at least 2 hours since my last murder/kidnapping case. I checked my settings, and "procedural murders" is on. I'm trying to figure out how to check my saved file to see if anything is bugged because the saved file is entirely composed of symbols. I don't want to start a new save file and discard this one because I've been playing for a while and have made a lot of progress, but I wonder if not discarding this save is an option anymore.

If you can, I would really appreciate help.