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
    2019-10-17T04:29:20+00:00

    I was playing minecraft today on my Xbox one with a friend and it crashed on us. As soon as i reopened the application our world was gone. Poof. As if it were deleted. Please help me

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-10-13T06:54:47+00:00

    well, I officially hate everything.. I clicked uninstall cause it said it wouldn't affect documents. apparently world saves are not documents.. thanks microsoft. I have no restore points so this method won't work for me.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-10-06T18:57:37+00:00

    There is a .minecraft folder, just not a saves folder

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-10-06T18:56:55+00:00

    Wilfred please tell me what to do. I want my world back after it crashed but I didn't find a "Saves" file

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