So let me cut to the chase. I have used Scratch for 5 years and 2 years ago I deleted my account for some stupid reason. I go to the internet archive, go back in time to try and find any saves of my account. I do find a few, but those are with very few projects. I take the projects url and I paste it onto phosphorus.github.io (It allows you to run scratch projects on there even if they're deleted.) Even then it's not enough. I have so many projects that I made and so many memories that I stupidly deleted.

I just want to know if there is any hope for finding those projects again. If there isn't, then that's okay. My former account was Eastu.

Thanks. It really feels nice coming back to this website.

I'm not sure, because I never deleted my account. Either way, there are lots and lots of project. And I'm talking about a lot. Even when I search my project names on the search bar, it is never there. So that is obviously useless.
You are saying that you deleted the account for two years already. That is a long time. When you started, you only used the pixelated original Scratch! My guess is that Scratch Team members might have deleted them. After all, they wouldn't want old projects by a long gone user floating around the place. They never, ever thought that you would come back and start looking for them.
Or, it is automated. Maybe projects from deleted users would float around for some time, and gradually disappear.
You said that you found traces of your projects and stuff. Do you mean links? Or you just searched your username up?
I might be wrong about this. I would never delete all progress of 5 long years. These are just my guesses.

It's kinda hard to explain but I can find old links on the archive and put it on the phosphorus thing, and I'll be able to run it.

It's alright. I have a few projects I can view. Thanks for responding.

You can find shared projects on a deleted account normally…

You can access your shared projects here, which I assume is what you already have. As for any unshared projects, I don't know if that's possible.

Okay. I created a test account for this, and deleted it.
It would ask for:
1. If you actually clicked it.
2. Your pass word.
3. Whether you want your projects to be deleted.
Which option did you click? Delete projects and comments, or only comments?

TheDreamyProfessor wrote:

Okay. I created a test account for this, and deleted it.
It would ask for:
1. If you actually clicked it.
2. Your pass word.
3. Whether you want your projects to be deleted.
Which option did you click? Delete projects and comments, or only comments?

They did only comments, you can find their projects here; but they said there are a few projects they can view right now which I assume are the 4 shared projects you can find through the link.

TheDreamyProfessor wrote:

I'm not sure, because I never deleted my account. Either way, there are lots and lots of project. And I'm talking about a lot. Even when I search my project names on the search bar, it is never there. So that is obviously useless.
You are saying that you deleted the account for two years already. That is a long time. When you started, you only used the pixelated original Scratch! My guess is that Scratch Team members might have deleted them. After all, they wouldn't want old projects by a long gone user floating around the place. They never, ever thought that you would come back and start looking for them.
Or, it is automated. Maybe projects from deleted users would float around for some time, and gradually disappear.
You said that you found traces of your projects and stuff. Do you mean links? Or you just searched your username up?
I might be wrong about this. I would never delete all progress of 5 long years. These are just my guesses.

Sorry, just reading this post makes me want to correct some things.
When you delete an account, your profile is not accessible at all, but you can choose to leave your projects up. If you do, you can find them through scratch.mit.edu/users/deleted/projects (replace deleted with the username). You don't have to search them since they wouldn't show up hence the being deleted. The Scratch Team does not manually or automatically delete them, it's all up to you.

By the way, 2 years ago was Scratch 2.0 which I was here for and it's not the “pixelated original Scratch” I think that was 1.4 or something. Either way the pixelated original Scratch was gone 8 years ago, not 2 or 5.

BearSlothCoding wrote:

By the way, 2 years ago was Scratch 2.0 which I was here for and it's not the “pixelated original Scratch” I think that was 1.4 or something. Either way the pixelated original Scratch was gone 8 years ago, not 2 or 5.

“Pixelated original Scratch” is everything before 2.0 (from 2007 to 2013).

Maximouse wrote:

BearSlothCoding wrote:

By the way, 2 years ago was Scratch 2.0 which I was here for and it's not the “pixelated original Scratch” I think that was 1.4 or something. Either way the pixelated original Scratch was gone 8 years ago, not 2 or 5.

“Pixelated original Scratch” is everything before 2.0 (from 2007 to 2013).

And since 2.0 repaced 1.4 7 years ago in 2013; if you were on Scratch 5 years ago, it would be 2.0 not “pixelated original Scratch” but anyways let's get back on topic.
OP, this explains a bit about deleted accounts saying that they cannot be recovered or logged into. I think this means that unfortunately, any unshared projects of yours cannot be recovered. Especially considering that between now and when you deleted the account, Scratch switched from 2.0 to 3.0. I don't know if the switch would mean anything but if there was any trace of the deleted data, it may have been completely deleted during that time. But don't quote me on that, since I don't know for sure.

Oh wow thanks! I actually never thought to do that. Now I realize I don't have that many shared projects…

deleting/unsharing projects could be compared closely to “hiding” them.

they are still always accessible unless the scratch team manually wipes the project from their database or you blank out the project yourself.

for example using the scratch-gui you can load a project.

You can find them here: https://api.scratch.mit.edu/users/Eastu/projects

I hope this is not necroposting!

bookmanoldstyle wrote:

You can find them here: https://api.scratch.mit.edu/users/Eastu/projects

I hope this is not necroposting!

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Oops, sorry.