Question Mark Bug won't leave my unshared project I haven't touched in weeks.

TBMTheFunniestPerson

SirBob_ wrote:
SirBob_ wrote:
My game Goober Run was hit with the bug recently. Going to the affected costumes shows that they're just question marks. Luckilly, I have a backup of the project so that I can fix it, but it's kind of weird that this is happening all over the place. I'm probably back up my other projects in case this new question mark bug is a more permanent corrupted file-style bug.

Update: I found that on Firefox-based browsers (My specs: Zen 1.20.1b 64-bit; Firefox 151.0.2), the question mark glitch on Goober Run doesn't seem to happen. It seems to me that the glitch might have to do with Chromium (My specs: Brave 1.90.124 64-bit; Chromium 148.0.7778.179), where it does occur when loading the project. Some projects might still show question marks because people have saved them with the glitch active, keeping the question marks there permanently regardless of what browser is being used. Goober Run hasn't been modified with the glitch active, so I won't update the project to keep it as an example.

god i need to use firefox

NovaShrugs926

Burgnew_On_A_Laptop wrote:
…For shared projects in particular, it's safer to view those through Turbowarp…

Warping Turbo? I'm not sure if it's ideal to me since I would speculate the question marks will still be there especially if the project was persisted through the editor page…

D3StudiosFREDBEAR

Burgnew_On_A_Laptop wrote:
If this happens, do NOT see inside or save the project, or else the ?-boxes could permanently overwrite those costumes! For shared projects in particular, it's safer to view those through Turbowarp. It'll also reveal which ?-boxes have become permanent - the only choice for those is to replicate the original costumes from scratch.

I know for sure this website-wrecking invasion of costume corruption is down to the new backend being rushed out without enough prior testing. I have a theory for why this may've been the case, but still…

too late

Slatch12

Burgnew_On_A_Laptop wrote:
If this happens, do NOT see inside or save the project, or else the ?-boxes could permanently overwrite those costumes! For shared projects in particular, it's safer to view those through Turbowarp. It'll also reveal which ?-boxes have become permanent - the only choice for those is to replicate the original costumes from scratch.

I know for sure this website-wrecking invasion of costume corruption is down to the new backend being rushed out without enough prior testing. I have a theory for why this may've been the case, but still…

Turbowarp also has the question mark bugs on there.

RedAndBlue64

Burgnew_On_A_Laptop wrote:
If this happens, do NOT see inside or save the project, or else the ?-boxes could permanently overwrite those costumes! For shared projects in particular, it's safer to view those through Turbowarp. It'll also reveal which ?-boxes have become permanent - the only choice for those is to replicate the original costumes from scratch.

I know for sure this website-wrecking invasion of costume corruption is down to the new backend being rushed out without enough prior testing. I have a theory for why this may've been the case, but still…

Are They Going to Be Restored? I Just Assumed They Were Lost Forever.

TBMTheFunniestPerson

Slatch12 wrote:
Burgnew_On_A_Laptop wrote:
If this happens, do NOT see inside or save the project, or else the ?-boxes could permanently overwrite those costumes! For shared projects in particular, it's safer to view those through Turbowarp. It'll also reveal which ?-boxes have become permanent - the only choice for those is to replicate the original costumes from scratch.

I know for sure this website-wrecking invasion of costume corruption is down to the new backend being rushed out without enough prior testing. I have a theory for why this may've been the case, but still…
Turbowarp also has the question mark bugs on there.

Same thing happened to me tbh, there used to be no question marks. Today i found out that Question Marks in Turbowarp occurs when internet's off, but not just only that.

Last edited by TBMTheFunniestPerson (June 3, 2026 14:11:42)

TBMTheFunniestPerson

RedAndBlue64 wrote:
Burgnew_On_A_Laptop wrote:
If this happens, do NOT see inside or save the project, or else the ?-boxes could permanently overwrite those costumes! For shared projects in particular, it's safer to view those through Turbowarp. It'll also reveal which ?-boxes have become permanent - the only choice for those is to replicate the original costumes from scratch.

I know for sure this website-wrecking invasion of costume corruption is down to the new backend being rushed out without enough prior testing. I have a theory for why this may've been the case, but still…

Are They Going to Be Restored? I Just Assumed They Were Lost Forever.

On the same exact spot (in costumes)

ArrunsTheSpartan

A couple more of my projects just kicked the bucket (not the same ones), but two more of my projects (one unshared one shared) got struck by the ? Curse. Luckily, fixed one, but the other one died completely. I didn’t use that one much, so I moved my lists to a new project.

EDawg2011

Burgnew_On_A_Laptop wrote:
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If this happens, do NOT see inside or save the project, or else the ?-boxes could permanently overwrite those costumes! For shared projects in particular, it's safer to view those through Turbowarp. It'll also reveal which ?-boxes have become permanent - the only choice for those is to replicate the original costumes from scratch.

I know for sure this website-wrecking invasion of costume corruption is down to the new backend being rushed out without enough prior testing. I have a theory for why this may've been the case, but still…

What's the theory?

NovaShrugs926

Burgnew_On_A_Laptop wrote:
If this happens, do NOT see inside or save the project, or else the ?-boxes could permanently overwrite those costumes! For shared projects in particular, it's safer to view those through Turbowarp. It'll also reveal which ?-boxes have become permanent - the only choice for those is to replicate the original costumes from scratch.

I know for sure this website-wrecking invasion of costume corruption is down to the new backend being rushed out without enough prior testing. I have a theory for why this may've been the case, but still…

Burgnew, I'm sorry to say this, but Warping Turbo doesn't solve the solution since many Scratchers know that the question marks still persist. It's recommended to edit your own post so no misinformation would get spread…

lionheart921

Bitmap costumes and Pen projects should be safe from this bug so try to make those kinds of projects if possible.

MasterMindX2

I'm experiencing the same issue, but additionally, some of the sound files no longer work and the “last modified” date was changed to one that's WAY before the real last time I modified the project.

RedAndBlue64

MasterMindX2 wrote:
I'm experiencing the same issue, but additionally, some of the sound files no longer work and the “last modified” date was changed to one that's WAY before the real last time I modified the project.

Yeah, Same Thing Happened to Me. One of the Audio Files Just Turned into Being 0.00 Seconds Long and Played Nothing.

Martiniquetwins

harrypotter3241 wrote:
Lots of my sprites are also question marks

Oh noes, but I'm on:
My browser / operating system: Linux, Firefox 151.0, No Flash versions detected
Why am I using Linux this is HyperOS

codubee

We have been working on recovering a randomish group of assets in projects that were incorrectly marked for deletion two weeks ago. However, doing the fix is requiring a visit to a rather large number of these assets (over 1 billion), and while that has been fixing things, it's going to take time before it is complete. The assets should return and if you want, you can post your project ID's here to have me speed up the process for your particular project.

codubee

I took a look at 1260099400 and found 1 asset missing an restored it just now, but it was in an older version of your project.

Slatch12 wrote:
Paddle2See wrote:
ProjectGenerator354 wrote:
This issue seems to happen frequently on my unshared projects. This bug also happens in this project
I'm seeing question marks on costumes 1,2,5 and 7 of the stage as well as elsewhere in the project.
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1260099400/ sharing this here and will unshare if yall fix this

codubee

Which project ID?

D3StudiosFREDBEAR wrote:
One of my projects has been corrupted for 2 weeks i think and yet the mods just ignore me like i'm a ghost.

plum_the_fox

codubee wrote:
We have been working on recovering a randomish group of assets in projects that were incorrectly marked for deletion two weeks ago. However, doing the fix is requiring a visit to a rather large number of these assets (over 1 billion), and while that has been fixing things, it's going to take time before it is complete. The assets should return and if you want, you can post your project ID's here to have me speed up the process for your particular project.

i'm sorry you guys need to go through that

codubee

I found three missing costumes in an older version of that project. I could restore the whole project and the costumes, but you'd lose any other changes you've made in the last 5 hours.

Matikiscool wrote:
Paddle2See wrote:
Sorry to hear about this issue. Engineering is going to want links to specific projects that are showing the issue so that they can track it down. Please supply some project links and a description of which sprite / costume is missing.
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1305044509/ The Me sprite got affected sadly.

codubee

The massive automated job we have running fixing this is steadily making progress and some folks may have already noticed sprite costumes/sound files reappearing already. However, again, I can specifically help out with particular project if the IDs are supplied. Otherwise, it becomes a hunt that I am unable to do because some folks have thousands of projects…

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