Missing world on chromebook
My daughter spent many hours creating a carnival world. After a hard crash on her chromebook, this world appears to be lost! Is there any way to recover?
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Hi there Annabelle MacNeil. I'm sorry to hear that this world was lost after the device crashed. We in support are unable to recover lost or missing worlds. You can however, attempt to locate it manually by going through your daughters Minecraft: Education Edition directory as the world files may be in there still. We recommend backing up your files regularly using the method below:
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The same thing happened to me. I got had a world that crashed in the middle of building, and now it's gone! What can I do now??
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The same thing also happened to me!!!! I had a world for my Spanish project, which by the way, is 65 points, and now I cant find it anywhere!!!! PLEASE, PLEASE PLEAAAAASE help me!!
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Oh no! Sorry to hear you are running into some issues with a lost world, we know how frustrating that can be.
If the files are still on the device, they would be in a folder called "minecraftWorlds". Since the file paths can vary on different Chromebook devices, you can search for this folder in your Files app. Make sure to click on the vertical dots in the top right and select "Show hidden files" and "Show all Play folders" to make sure your search is pulling up the right result
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
- Right-click the folder, and then select "Zip selection".
- A zip file will appear under the folder selection.
- Rename the .zip file to "[WORLDNAME].mcworld" - WORLDNAME is a name you choose that is recognizeable to you
- Double click on this file, and Minecraft: Education will launch
For very important worlds, it's a great idea to export and save your worlds after every session.
If it is not there, it is likely the world is lost for good unfortunately.
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