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
    2019-02-21T01:56:17+00:00

    i need to get back a world accidently deleted without a backup can i?

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-01-31T04:41:07+00:00

    When I got my world back, it spawned me at the same spot I exited the game at. And if you want to be precaucious, I would definitely copy and paste your level.dat and level.dat_old on your corrupted level to your desktop, so if if ends up not working (which it should work) you do not accidentally delete your level data. 

    As you can tell I am very bad at explaining things, I hope this helped. If you need any more questions just ask

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-01-31T04:04:28+00:00

    When you say the same settings as the deleted world, does that include spawn point?

    And do you need backups of the old world's info? Because I don't see it in the file.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-01-30T23:21:04+00:00

    Hi, best thing I can recommend is first to find the folder of your lost world and back it up (i.e., copy it to another safe location like the Desktop or somewhere where you can keep a "good" copy ("good" being relative since the world doesn't work).  At least you'll have a pristine copy in case your experimentation goes wrong.

    Now that you've done that, you can try a few different things.  First, I believe the corruption most likely lies in the level.dat and level.dat_old files (perhaps not this last one, but including it just in case).  I just ran a little test where I made a copy of my main world.  Then, I quit and created a brand new world and immediately saved and quit.  I then copied the brand new world "level.dat" and "level.dat_old" files into the copy of my main world and started that game.  It ran and other than the name of the world changing, it seemed to work.  So you might try that.

    Confirmed! I had the same problem. After copy-paste the two file .dat from a "new" game folder to the "old" not working, the lost world appeared again and works. The only thing to check/change is (if necessary) the world name.

    thanks NeillWhite1 !!

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