Minecraft Windows 10 Edition Lost Worlds

Anonymous
2017-01-30T01:16:17+00:00

Hello All,

Recently, I have had troubles with my Minecraft Windows 10 Edition freezing up every 20 or so minutes. Since this was a huge nuisance, I contacted Microsoft support and they told me to do some things, including uninstalling Minecraft W10E. I asked the person twice to make sure my worlds would not be erased, and they said that they would not. I come to find out that after uninstalling it and reinstalling it, my worlds, my skin, and my server saves were gone. Is there any way that I could retrieve those lost worlds? I am not concerned about the skin or the server saves, but I am the worlds. Please tell me what I need to do if it is possible to get my worlds back again.

Thank you.

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Anonymous
2017-01-30T23:53:11+00:00

Hi Harry,

To better help you with your concern about the missing world in the game Minecraft, we recommend that you follow the steps below:

How to recover missing Minecraft world:

  1. Click the start button and search %appdata%.
  2. Find and enter the .minecraft folder.
  3. Find the saves folder and right-click it, there should be an option called restore previous versions.

If the issue persists after doing the steps provided above, we recommend that you submit a request regarding this matter on this link.

Keep us posted.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-03-29T20:05:47+00:00

    After I found the world I was looking for and hit “Restore Previous Versions” it is telling me there are no previous versions available but I can see the world file. Is there anyway I could get it back?

    Start Minecraft, create a brand new world, start the game, save it and then quit. Now copy the brand new .dat files (level.dat and level.dat_old) into the folder with your "old world".

    Start Minecraft again and now you should see the old world (probably with a "wrong" name).

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-03-27T21:55:33+00:00

    After I found the world I was looking for and hit “Restore Previous Versions” it is telling me there are no previous versions available but I can see the world file. Is there anyway I could get it back?

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-03-07T16:57:40+00:00

    .mincraft folder doesnt exist??? 

    i installed minecraft off the microsoft purchase, cant recover the lost world :(

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-03-01T22:44:18+00:00

    I tried all these steps, but it says "There is no previous versions available".

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