HowTo: Recover your work when Unity crashes

[@Kanal994]

Lives were saved this day.

[@Unity3dCollege]

lol :)

[@_denzy_6310]

Already reopened ;( :(

[@TheSecretSause]

same

[@MaxDev]

@@TheSecretSause we can still restore it

[@havendewart]

same

[@UrixMusic]

@@MaxDev how

[@noormuhammad5923]

​@@UrixMusic try going in the recycle bin tool on your computer then try finding your scene there. Next right Click > Restore and you should have your scene back

[@eagleskull14]

I had worked on my game for over 2 hours without saving (and I don't know why) and the whole thing was deleted. I had massive work on it and it was all deleted when I renamed the scene. I know you may not see this, but I am eternally grateful for you and your work, so here is a sub, a like, and a comment! Thanks so much, if I could give you money I would, but I am unable to at this time. Again, thanks so much!

[@samranali2679]

there is no _Backupscene folder inside temp folder, Now what i have to do?

[@darianvargas5958]

I cannot express how much I love you. Wow... I almost quit unity for a long time. At least now I know to save backups every now and then. Thank you so much! I accidently replaced my game scene with another from the asset store that had the same name.

[@jessicas6674]

LOL this is the most stupid design decision I ever saw. There IS a backup being saved and the user is NOT informed about it AND then the backup is deleted at the earliest opportunity without asking if the user would like to restore or keep the backup??? Do the Unity devs actually hate their clients? Anyway, thank you very much *upvote*!

[@roughdragonfly]

For real, they could take two seconds and add a quick recovery dialog. Obviously the rest of the backup process is in place, like wtf haha.

[@MG-eo6ll]

This is not even reddit, This is KZbin. KZbin doesn't have a upvote and downvote button. (As of 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘢𝘺 typing this comment) But I think you meant "*like*!". Anyways, Have a good day.

[@david3atista]

I fucking hate unity. You then open the file again and it deletes the backup. Fuck this shit

[@energixgaming2096]

@@david3atista yeah i just lost like 7-8 hrs of work :| ahhh

[@BageStudios]

I wish I knew this before launching Unity again

[@maybedizzy]

same

[@BageStudios]

@BfdiFan2763-h3q Unity is just straight garbage

[@vhonn8078]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I have been working on a project for hours now and when I changed scenes, somehow unity didn't even give any prompt. It loaded a different scene and suddenly everything was gone. Literally a lifesaver thank you!

[@Atezian]

it froze. no bkacup folder in the project folder. 2019.4 LTS version. froze while baking lights with very low settings. so annoying

[@dknighter2]

I hit ctrl+s like I breathe, learned that the hard way.

[@Unity3dCollege]

I'm with ya there.. I have a habit of hitting it constantly without realizing. Only becomes an issue when i'm in empty scenes I didn't want to save :)

[@pedrosousa6576]

Same

[@AlexanderZotov]

+1)

[@alinawaz4034]

me too

[@Korn1holio]

Can we sue unity for the development of OCD symptoms?

[@AJ-nm5fx]

Wish I had known of this 3 years ago! Would have saved over 100 hrs of work. No use crying over spilt milk. If anything it made me more skillful in those areas of work lost by redoing it so many times. Stay Positive Thank you, Sir! Subscribed :)

[@Unity3dCollege]

I'm with ya. I could have saved days worth of re-creating things over the years.. Didn't learn about this one until a year or two ago.

[@playbench]

What about when you have been saving a scene and project and Unity crashes and upon loading up again it only shows a project from a week ago?? I've been saving every 10 minutes and now it seems I've lost a week of work. Where did it go?

[@noriko_kristiko]

yo there's no _Backupscenes in my game folder =(

[@paninozzo8534]

F

[@Cherwub]

YOU SAVED MY LIFE I WAS ABOUT TO CRY THANK YOU

[@casecao8412]

Bruh I literally just re-opened Unity before watching this video...

[@itsikarii]

Smaes/d

[@Pedro-cm8bh]

I can’t find my temp folder

[@Pedro-cm8bh]

@Ethan Gab this was like a year ago lol, nah i just gave up and lost my work :(

[@ProtoPropski]

Thank-you. I have been creating a scene for VRChat for a skit, and I thought I lost days worth of work. Turns out Unity just didn't open my saved scene for me, but this video will certainly come in handy if I want to do further work.

[@marietrans8950]

Same, thank cod

[@wywarren]

If you're using plus or pro and have access to collaborate, I'd recommend using that over repeatedly saving. Sometimes if you save to often (yes it can happen) you make commit stuff that you had not intended and although you have retained a recent state, it's more work to rollback to a previous working state. Using version control systems like collaborate, you can have commented save points and roll back and forth as needed.

[@Unity3dCollege]

Definitely correct there! Everyone should be using source control.

[@000Gua000]

I have regular power outages. I don't mind losing progress I have before I saved, but the issue I have is that when I open Unity after power outage. It starts to reimport all assets. I have a big project, so it might take many hours. So I'm wondering, if I delete temp folder before lunching unity, will this help me avoid reimport for the whole project?

[@Pennyfalke1]

I lost 15 hours of Work at First, then i recreated everything, and i lost again 8 hours of Work nnnnice, then i found this Video

[@Colzoin_Vr]

I hit ctrl s all the time but when it crash and I went back in 3 days of work was gone

[@rashtopdog8049]

What if you don't have it? i saved my project on a flash drive in 2018 & its missing some of the work I put in to it

[@ImperativeGames]

Considering how often Unity crashes, it's a great #UnityTip!

[@adityasher]

"the software is very stable" /s

[@freshpepperino]

this saved my scene but when i scurried to do research to see if i could recover my scene and ultimately ended up opening it up again, i died a little and lost the will to continue for today LMFAO but thank you for this

[@stephenirving9846]

I'm with you. I'm surprised Unity is such a trash product that it can't handle making sure you can recover unsaved worked automatically. Especially with how often their software crashes.

[@kayaltamira]

Does this work if I didn’t launch the editor but I launched the hub? First it was showing last time opened 3 days ago, then 6 but in the temp folder was there showing up-to-date when the crash occurred… I followed this tutorial but I am so afraid to open it and see my whole project gone… please someone help me, I am about to loose my mind

[@theluffyclips3597]

I dont have the temp file, i was importing a material and it asked be to reload my project and so I agreed and now all of my months of work is gone. What do i do?

[@filisoafe]

i dont have that backup folder ;-; cant delete my project too

[@darkener3210]

This is extremely useful however similar crashes / freezes can happen out side of play mode do to some kind of tool like pro builder. Is there any way to recover from there even if you've never entered play mode?

[@snepsr]

holy shit, i almost had to quit a game jam cus of my stupidity. thanks a ton

[@cruspelich8374]

i can't play any of unity games pls help It's giving the same crash but on any game

[@emmanuelmadehin9109]

You’re a life Saver Jason 🥺🥺🥺

[@ToonzVR]

I just lost hours of work (about 3-4). It didn't work for some reason.

[@yuraahrblx]

I did it but the backup scene is not saved:(

[@noormuhammad5923]

To anyone who reopened Unity after it crashing do this: try going in the recycle bin tool on your computer then try finding your scene there. Next right Click > Restore and you should have your scene back

[@maybedizzy]

not there :(

[@anlozge1788]

why It would be in the recycle bin. Does unity delete unsaved changes and put em in there?

[@DontCare395]

Hey can you make a tutorial how to fix problem when loading scene when i open my project scene there was nothing its empty. can you help me

[@saddygamer1584]

Hey anyone else who have opened the unity again and the you can't find the backup scene what I did was I just rename the scene file to something else like level1 to level1_1 and when you open it , it works (at least for me you should try though)

[@Aladato]

I recently had some random crashes that stopped now, but for a couple of days I lost some prefabs and animations/animators. Thankfully, we always save code to compile it, so no losses there.

[@matinshirjang6347]

Hi i upload my project to unity cloud and i I deleted the project file by mistake how can i download or get back my project from unity cloud (no project in remote projects and im the owner) cna any one help me please

[@ahmedmohmmed7146]

I was making an android game i was just about to launch final play testing and the game is a singles scence and unity crashed 3 months of work was lost i still have the scripts and assest but reworking the scene will need so much time and work i am done Edit:the scence is empty now

[@norbertszarlotka5764]

the same just happenned to me :( 6 months of work

[@MrSirFluffy]

You went 3 months without saving the scene? How? Did you just never close the program? Anyway, look at the silver linings. You can now get even more familiar with the game and brush up anything you didn't like. From my experience every time I redo my stuff it comes out a bit better and I get new inspirations. Not an ideal situation, but get any good out of it you can.

[@ahmedmohmmed7146]

@@MrSirFluffy i did save the scene i mean that my game was only one scene

[@MrSirFluffy]

A scene isnt lost if you save it though. Even in a crash.

[@ahmedmohmmed7146]

@@MrSirFluffy maybe the file was corrupted or something

[@wearecodersandprogrammers4775]

What If it crashes before I press the play button?? Will there be the backup file

[@LeHalazoone]

My temp folder does not have this file, what can i do please???

[@melvinluner1454]

Same here

[@LeHalazoone]

@@melvinluner1454 hi, i just forgot about that :) maybe i found the solution :) Do you need help???

[@melvinluner1454]

@@LeHalazoone yes a lot

[@LeHalazoone]

@@melvinluner1454 i m a beginner but i will help you if i m able, let me know what is your problem

[@melvinluner1454]

@@LeHalazoone ok been on a month project and I shut down my pc forgot to save and when I opened unity it’s gone my scripts are still there and in Virtual studio and in unity but the things I created the map and the worlds are all gone

[@hriday684]

Thank you so much! I almost lost all the 2 hours I spent trying to carefully position colliders onto a car.

[@GeoHjalle]

Yeah the only thing is that it was about an hour ago and I tried to restart unity, I had work alone on that project😢

[@iselezionati5277]

Hi Jason, i had no experience in Unity 3d, from windows i swiched the build on ios and i lost the keystore. How can I restore everything as before? Thanks in advance.

[@bunnieswithrabies]

Omg thank you so much, I was doing a Project about Using Unity to Make a game for the blind and i thought i lost everything. BUT YOU SAVED ME

[@thewaterleaf7929]

hi...I have a very important question how can you restore windows like project or console if you"deleted" them? please answer, I worked like 1 month on a game and I just accidentaly pressed the X button of the project window and it disappeared, then I raged out and pressed X on the console too...please, I beg you, help me!!!

[@amarikwa888]

Click window in the top left of the screen go Down to general and click scene/ console

[@thewaterleaf7929]

@@amarikwa888 thank you! have a good holiday!!!

[@AlexanderZotov]

Great tip! Thanks a lot!

[@PositronicDiscombobulator]

When my Ui crashed it said, last save 12 hours ago, imagine the panic and horror. I got it all back though, thanks!

[@ReinoRoina]

thanks a million times, i just spent like 4 hours making a game and then accidentally made infinite while loop B)

[@CertainlyTrying]

Thanks for doing the Lord's work, my man.

[@manavgarg1855]

trust me this is the most useful content I have ever seen!

[@knos2938]

Still lost some changes, but this helped a lot

[@maggiejiang1683]

Thank you so much!!!! Life saver before mid-term!!

[@physics1514]

What about mac?? I just spent the last 4 hours on unity I must retrieve this.

[@spectralkat9095]

I didnt save my game in a folder and my whole computer crashed its been over three hours of working on my game but now its just gome

[@ryhanen7819]

I lost 3h of work

[@Mazahas]

Lost one week, because i'm a f*cking stupid

[@PartyglassGT]

Lost 3 months gtag game…

[@Gooby_VR]

Same lol​@@PartyglassGT

[@JustAnother-Human]

Same

[@BossAleks123]

i dont have the temp folder

[@bonebard6178]

tried this out and everything has their textures removed

[@OsadeTOOT]

unity can't autosave on crash, such a shame

[@adityasher]

Most tools do so, unity can't even detect infinite loops.

[@BigBanan13]

I lost everything

[@Unity3dCollege]

Gotta start using version control. :( losing everything happens to us all at least once I think

[@janospillinger9151]

It would be probably a good solution to write a script which copies the content of the folder and then start Unity. And all you have to do is always start your unity through that script. That way you do not have to remember anything.

[@Unity3dCollege]

On a normal close, that folder would be empty, so that might work. Only problem is the scene name won't be there, so you have to overwrite the same file or know which scene it's supposed to be. A shortcut for when it crashes would be great though (or just copying the file into a 'recovered' folder or something might work)

[@joshuareeves9985]

So useful! You rock Jason

[@jamessager5358]

You'd think Unity would simply keep cycling through those scenes not deleting them on load... I just lost 2 hours of work.

[@paullyo2244]

I was about to commit sewer slide but you came in clutch. Thanks

[@alexandermrcrew]

Thanks Man You saved My life...

[@koksuzmopsu6037]

Why they just put autosave...

[@spaceblade]

Bruh you saved me😢 thank you so much

[@Dogmut]

My temp folder was empty

[@ankitsharma695]

what was in that script

[@stevensherry9722]

Ha...unfortunately I don't think someones first response to an editor crashing is to look around and see if there is a way to restore the changes before opening back up. It's more like the second thing they do after they open the editor and realize their shit is gone.

[@Unity3dCollege]

lol not wrong there. but once i knew about this trick, it definitely saved me the next time i worked too long w/o saving lol

[@perssontm1628]

Well i opened unity up after the crash and boom a whole day of work lost

[@unnamedsoul4937]

you saved me brother TQ VERY MUCH!!!

[@barewr828]

I can't find the temp folder

[@melvinluner1454]

Same here

[@hooxo4662]

I worked for 4 hours and accidentally clicked don't save

[@danilazotov814]

Saved me from heart attack

[@johndafuni]

i cant find it. NOW I CANT RECOVER MY THING

[@grizzledwarveteran2321]

You are a great human being

[@mythicalpassage1838]

I worked on this game for like 20hours and now everything is gone

[@dragzowen3307]

OMG thank u so much u earned a sub

[@ExploreWithNauti]

Saved my work❤️❤️❤️❤️ Thanks a lot

[@solomonlee4608]

I opened it and my whole project is gone wt do i do

[@Captofry]

lil uzivert I am probably late but go on file then click on open scene then choose your scene and then there you go! I found this yesterday because I had the same problem.

[@paninozzo8534]

Thanks very much

[@JustAnother-Human]

But I did relaunch it😭

[@1Raward1]

3 hours of work gone why did I reopen unity ;-; also why didn't I save.... Im screaming

[@rosenamielabtan7601]

Thank You So Much!

[@braileveracruz]

What a lifesaver! Thanks!

[@cosmonautilus1181]

thank you so much!

[@AnkitSaiyan]

I lost days of work! I wish I had watched this before opening the Engine again.

[@perssontm1628]

Ankit Saiyan I feel you

[@RishikeshDubey99]

I lost months of work😭

[@mikaelshaikh]

@@RishikeshDubey99 you didn't save in months???

[@RishikeshDubey99]

@@mikaelshaikh haha i saved it every time one part was done.. But my project was kind of complicated and every files were related to one another so one error and "poof" whole project becomes useless ...i had no other option not even this video helped me and i had to rebuild the whole project again. Took days but i somehow created it. Anyways here is a free advice for u "always create a backup so if every thing goes totally wrong u can still save your project"😊.

[@ethanzVR]

BRO TYSM!!!!

[@majid283]

Thank You very Much!!

[@JStankXPlays]

Ok. I followed what you did there but this video could be so much better. 1. You have to tell the audiance HOW to get to that folder. I had to search my directory for "unity" and click on random files unitl I found where the project was located. 2. Slow down when you are saying, "now I'm going to the scene folder" say "go up a level" "go up a level" "then click..." "scenes" then say "now that I'm in the scenes folder we are ready for the next step, but first.... 3. make sure you mention view: folder options: Hide extensions for known file types, because it has to be done first!" 4. Ok now we are ready to paste this into the scene folder 4. Now all you have to do is leave the 0 and type .unity after the zero. You don't want back up just type .unity.. just like this!" 5. Restart unity. DONE!

[@Robber7]

You just saved my life.

[@felixpk2]

Thanks!

[@Unity3dCollege]

You're welcome!

[@CuddleBean]

Welp I lost everything then

[@MrPixotic]

Saved my arse, have a like.

[@bingus9813]

almost had a heart attack, tysm

[@Imblu95]

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, while importing unity assets it told me to do something and i pressed okey and now my whole project got replaced by tectures MY SCENE IS GONE

[@Unity3dCollege]

Happens to us all, source control and constant commits is the only real safe solution :(

[@Branzoaica]

i litteraly restarted unity just before hearing this 1:35 at least the scripts are saved separately

[@MDRNgamedev]

pretty sure they took this out in unity 6

[@themalcahtwinz4743]

thank you