Restoring deleted projects

lasokar_scratch

Support. I had a project that I took days making but then I accidentally broke it. I didn't know what to do so I just put it in the trash. One day I decided to clear the trash and the project dissipated forever. (well not really, since doing some research I found that “permanently deleted” projects don't actually get deleted, the link just wont be shown anymore in “your stuff”, so you can still access it if you kept the link. I did not) So the point is that after a few hours I found how to fix it. But it was too late, it was gone. So I definitely think that there should be a 48-hour period of time where you have the option to restore the project, before its gone.

Elijah999999

That's the whole point of trash. I never empty mine, just in case I'll need something later.

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sonic__fan

No support, if you put a project in the Trash folder, you don't want it.
And even if you misclick, aren't you asked to put in your password to make sure that you want to delete the projects?

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clssml

Can i recover all my deleted projects?

FluffyBumblebees74

Orangey2011 wrote:
There is a way!

1. Go to delete my account (I promise)
2. You should see some deleted projects. IF the one is there, click it.
3. Go inside.
4. Go to file. Then, go to “save as a copy”
5. Go to my stuff and you should see “your game” copy.
6. Delete copy from the name!
7. There is no step 7.

Actually, some deleted projects won’t show up in the delete my account page, so maybe it works sometimes.

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KittyCat_Alt

DeclanM411 wrote:
All the Fnaf 2 projects were deleted but they had warnings on them but they got deleted anyway they were exactly like the real game and the creators worked countless days on it so basically scratch wants us to make masterpieces and trash them after countless hours I like to see one of them make a fnaf project and delete it in other words they shouldn't be able to destroy what we created who's with me!!!

True. They deleted my stuff from my main account that I really enjoyed!

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Last edited by KittyCat_Alt (March 30, 2023 10:49:35)

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Add this feature to Scratch! It would be useful, even if I have a bunch of projects I will never share in my trash and I never emptied it!

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I believe you can already contact the Scratch Team to recover your projects, though.

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Last edited by KittyCat_Alt (March 30, 2023 10:52:05)

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ScratcherAtAIS2 wrote:
i made a project for math but it deleted itself

Oh no!

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oskarg2013

now if your project is deleted you just go to messages then click one of the projects and done your backup!

(fun to see you :))

o97doge

oskarg2013 wrote:
now if your project is deleted you just go to messages then click one of the projects and done your backup!
(fun to see you :))

unfortunately, old messages get deleted after a year.

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TealResearchBrands

Hello, the project I accidently deleted was an important one to me. I tried the delete account tactic, but that project did not show up.

Lionstormy

WolfCat67 wrote:
Why would you put a project you wanted to keep in the Trash in the first place? To be honest, you'd probably only put it there if you didn't like it, so deleting it wouldn't really be much of a hassle… I would've thought that the original “putting in the trash” could be considered the first deletion, and “put back” could be restoring it. “Empty Trash” would be the permanent deletion. No?

They said they deleted it “Accidentally”.

rdococ

I agree with this suggestion. Kids will be kids and might not fully understand the implications of ‘deleting’ a project or emptying the trash, so another layer of caution couldn't hurt.

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ImmortalJelly13

emptying trash is meant to empty it restoring defeats the purpose

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support because this happens all the time 2 me

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PaperMarioFan2022

support. Almost, half of the companies that store cloud data like Google and Microsoft do this for deleted files as well, so it is a thing to implement and not as hard now

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