Retrieving Lost Worlds
At my school, there was a schoolwide to reset all the students' Chromebooks for Profile Clearing to conduct schoolwide standardized assessment
. All the students' Minecraft Edu program were uninstalled from their Chromebooks. Some students went to the Play Store and re-installed the Minecraft Edu program, but they received error messages and all the worlds they spent weeks working on are not gone. Is there a way to retrieve the worlds that students have created?
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Hey there,
When Minecraft Education is uninstalled it will take the worlds with it. This is because the worlds as part of the app.
It is possibly (however unlikely), that some world files may be recoverable using the steps below, however, with app uninstalls, its not generally likely:
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 reasons like this, we recommend having students take backups of important worlds on a semi-frequent basis, or setting up cloud sync through onedrive (provided you have the licenses for it). Information about both of these options can be found below:
Import, Export, and Manage Worlds
Cloud Upload and Download
Let us know if you have any additional questions, or concerns!
Thank you!0 -
how do we play free?
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Hey there Jihan!
You can try out the demo for free! More info on that here - https://edusupport.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/360047116432-Try-Minecraft-Education-for-free
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