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
    2018-01-18T23:54:42+00:00

    help me

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-04-17T03:25:14+00:00

    I had this problem with my Xbox one. How would i fix this with that system?

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-04-28T18:27:08+00:00

    I just had the same issue - I was playing a world in Minecraft Windows 10 Edition when my game froze and froze my whole computer.  When I restarted the computer and tried to play it again, the world was missing from the list!  I had spent months on this world so I didn't want to lose all that progress.

    So, after some trial and error, I got my world back.  First off, open File Explorer and go to:

    %localappdata%\Packages\Microsoft.MinecraftUWP_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\games\com.mojang\minecraftWorlds\

    In this directory, you'll see a lot of folders with strange names like "jLUCAlmQAQA=", "0HQAALXzVwA=", etc.  These are your Minecraft worlds.  You can probably tell which folder is for your missing world by the modified date but if not, each folder has a "levelname.txt" file that contains the world name.  When you locate your missing world, there are files called "level.dat" and "level.dat_old".  I renamed "level.dat" to "level.corrupted.dat" (just to keep it around in case this didn't work) and renamed "level.dat_old" to "level.dat".  Restarted Minecraft and voila!  My world is back and playable.

    My guess is that at the beginning of each session, the last game state, "level.dat" gets copied to "level.dat_old" in case of corruption so restoring the old "level.dat" file restores the game to the last session before corruption.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-06-24T20:57:00+00:00

    Ive already tried it, says no previous versions. Anything else I could try?

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