Minecraft World Gone
I was playing Minecraft when my Laptop went flat. When I logged back on and opened Minecraft Education the world was not showing up in my list. Any help please as we had progressed a lot and my friends and I are stressed as it was a really good world.
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My friends and I are freaking out! Does anyone know what to do??? Please get back to me if you do!
Thank you,
Luke.
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Hey Luke, thanks for reaching out.
Oh no!
If you are on a Windows device, try these steps, let me know how it goes:
You may still be able to find the world files here:
C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\Minecraft Education Edition\games\com.mojang\minecraftWorlds
If you are on another platform, try searching "com.mojang"
The tricky part of this is that the world folders are listed with a "GUID", which is a series of letters and numbers that don't correlate to the world name that you'd recognize. Here what I would suggest finding the world and see if you can still open it:
- sort the minecraftWorlds folder by date and try to pinpoint the time you were last in the world
- open the folder that has a date/time close to the last time you were in the world
- open the file called "levelname.txt" in a text editor to see the name of the world. If it's the world you are looking for, close the file and move to the next step
- copy the entire folder for this world to your desktop, or another convenient location
- open the folder in this new location, select all of the files in the directory, right click and then select "Send to Compressed (zipped) folder"
- A new file with extension ".zip" will show up in this folder. Move this .zip file to the desktop, or another convenient location
- Rename the .zip file to "[WORLDNAME].mcworld" - WORLDNAME is a name you choose that is recognizable to you
- Double click on this file, and Minecraft: Education Edition will launch
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Thank Danny for the help!
I had previously tried this as I am on Windows and have located the file of my world. However when I try to rename the zip folder nothing changes. Also, I noticed that when I opened "levelname.txt" it was blank so then I opened, "level.dat" and "level.dat_old" and they were both blank. Maybe when my computer died the files were erased?
Please get back to me when u can,
Luke.
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Hey Luke!
No problem, and yeah that sounds like it may be the case :/
That is our go-to fix for lost worlds, other than that all we can do is recommend to back up world files every so often for future worlds.
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