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
    2019-07-28T02:37:55+00:00

    What If you uninstalled minecraft and see nothing help

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-08-03T01:04:48+00:00

    I did everything you did, but when I started up minecraft, I was still missing my world.

    Things I might have gone wrong:

    I didn't have a file named "level.dat", but I had something that was named "level" with a star icon, and when I opened it up it was like a video editor called videopad. Also there was nothing in the level name of my lost world.

    If you know how to fix this please help me out.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-08-03T01:14:22+00:00

    You should just be able to right click it and click Open With and click Notepad or something...

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-08-06T15:35:22+00:00

    where do you type %appdata%?

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