I lost all my characters and my terraria world that I worked on for a long time RIP I tried everything to recover it and before you say look in the trash can I did shift delete it search up what does shift delete do I'm not explaining it I told my friend about it and now I'm you it if you have any way to recover it please tell me
by Educational_Ratio172
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I feel very bad for you i dont think you can get it back unless you have a paid restoration programm that was installed before the files were deleted
Did you try to check the trash bin?
Edit: reading is hard
That’s why you regularly back up your files… My friend also lost everything since he forgot his password and had to wipe the drive and also had no backup…
happened to me not once, but twice. one of those actually made me cry, i cannot understand how steam just doesnt cloud save automatically, and even if you do cloud save, it just often doesnt work for some reason. i also recently lost a laptop to flooding so thats another round of saves lost.. lol
Why would you ever use shift+delete for anything, just delete it normally then clear the recycling bin every week or so.
Try some software to recover deleted files (maybe Recuva? Idk) and scan whole C drive with it. Try to not download any files on your C drive, since any file can override deleted files
My Documents > My Games > Terraria > Worlds/Players
You might have backup save files
“worldname”.wld (normal save file)
“worldname”.wld.bak (backup save file)
just remove “.bak” part and save file should show up in game
I used this method to get back my save file from Terraria 1.2
Good Luck op
your game automatically makes backups
unless you deleted the folder with all of the player and world files u should still have them with the .bak extension
what exactly did you delete? the mygames terraria folder? worlds folder? players folder?
Damn, having done this for other games multiple times, i know the feeling man
The building and creativity sticks is always with you. You’ll make better ones dont give up :C
I lost mine recently too!! I checked the recycle bin and they were there. I tried the “restore” option and after that I never saw the files again. I was devastated for weeks, and I’ve lost all motivation to play the game.
deleted data is not actually deleted, your pc marks the spots as empty so it will eventually overwtite it. if you are fast enough you can recover it useing special software or other means
If you had steam cloud on you can restore old files from this link
https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage
So if they were local files, you should be able to get them back.
You could try a system restore if your pc is set to do that, like others mentioned, use a free recovery program.
When you delete something, technically its just windows saying “the space is now available to use”. It doesn’t mean its perma gone. Now if you download a couple gigs of programs or anything, and the space gets overwritten, then your fucked.
If you have chat gpt and or gemini, ask it questions about recovering your terraria files.
Terraria makes .bak files or characters and worlds! Make sure to check there first
Agggeeees back there was a glitch for terraria on Xbox, if you joined someone else’s world without leaving your own then did something it’d bug and swap your worlds, I lost so much beloved shit in my best world to it and got the weirdest world ever in return.
Remember to make manual backups!
Been there
Thankfully, I’m not that emotionally attached to my Worlds and Characters that aren’t cloud saved, but it deleted all of my data with the newest update as well.
happened to me literally last month… I undownloaded the game
Okay
Check your steam cloud backups
Check out the automatic backup saves, there should be some since terraria automatically makes them, also could check the steam cloud if you played there