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
    2017-12-19T00:51:35+00:00

    Wilfred mac that is not helpful.

    minecraft has two main versions bedrock and java. 

    they are VERY different and those steps only apply to the java edition.

    I personally would also like to know how to load backups for bedrock as well.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-12-19T00:52:33+00:00

    There is but only for the minecraft java edition.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-12-19T03:14:34+00:00

    I experienced this same issue.  You're hosed.  I realize this was back in January and it's now December as I am replying, but for anyone else that might find this, you're hosed.  If you remove the game, back up your worlds FIRST, or they are gone forever.

    I was told the same thing by the Microsoft people - "No it won't erase your saved worlds."  They were wrong.  Very, very wrong.  It sucked, but lesson learned as I now back up any worlds that I don't want to see get nuked by stray Microsoft happenings...

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-01-15T03:13:20+00:00

    I have this same problem.What do i do after I type tha t in?

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