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

ProjectGenerator354

This bug is annoying to some people.

Last edited by ProjectGenerator354 (June 7, 2026 22:34:01)

scar_x34

This is a serious bug since it can completely destroy Scratchers' masterpiece that took days, months, or even years to make. So, Scratch should fix this problem to prevent more Scratchers from suffering because of that deadly bug. (I also lost one of my best games because of this)

12scratchy

Edit: This post was resolved.

Last edited by 12scratchy (June 8, 2026 19:48:31)

MasterMindX2

So, how long until all affected projects have been fixed?

mamea_K

Dear Scratch Team, I have encountered a bug in this project where the costumes turn into question marks (“?”):シューティング -The dawn 外伝-Shooting Game “The dawn sidestories”　ver.3.35
This issue mainly occurs with the sprite named “3:敵”. If possible, I would highly appreciate it if scratch team could fix this bug and restore the costumes.
Thank you for your time and assistance.
Sincerely,

masmoczek123

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.

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/883513805
here sprites/costumes that are question marked: Swordman all costumes, buttons some costumes (it have so many so i don't want to talk about all), player units same, enemy's units same, in projectiles C.arrow and bomb2, samein enemy projectiles (C.arrow and bomb2), writing, win/defeat kostium2, upgrade buton, chests have many costumes and some of them are question marked,same in buttons for upgrade, same in cards buttons, same in Chest rewards, and Duszek1 and 2 scenes: background and shop and 1 sound: High whoosh on player's units

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/979752769
here sprites/costumes that are question marked: zach ludzik (kostium2), zach ludzik2, złoto (Tree1), Duszek5 (kostium1 and kostium3), builder's plan (kostium3, kostium1 and kostium4), furnace (4 costumes),mine (minelvl1 step 1, minelcl1 step 2),x y mine, x y building, x y frayer, x y barracks, x y warrior enemy, x y warrior (all x y's had same costume), Duszek12 (kostium1), button 1 (kostium1), button2 (kostium1), Duszek8 (kostium1), Duszek15 (kostium1), Enemy warrior (kostium2), all sounds and scenes seem to be safe

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1210075475
here sprites/costumes that are question marked: player's hitbox (that vanished, not question marked xD), players' bullet (kostium1), i fixed Player's coolbar, enemy's hitbox, enemys bullet, enemy bar (pasek2 pusty2, pasek 2 pełny, pasek 2 pół), here scenes and sounds seem to be safe too

Here lot of sprites have question marks and i don't checked all but i think some sounds can be muted. Also stages sometimes are completly vanished or turned into question marks. I don't know how it happened but good luck on fixing that bug on scratch

If it's possible, pls fix that.

BTW Those are not only projects where question marks exist, but those are most improtant.
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masmoczek123

zubairhakimaj wrote:
me too, even my unfinished animation that have 2 sprites (but with more than 100 costumes) and the question mark is changing almost 50 percent of all costume, it was sooo frustrating and i dont want to finish it again

zach20042013

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.

We're Gonna Win?

Nanakos003

I am trying to fix those mistakes but it's hopeless, a day or two the same glitches keeps on coming on that one specific project. Is there really no solution to this error? I thought Scratch Team said they fixed this since 2021 or something.

MasterMindX2

Ok, honestly, what caused all of this to happen in the first place? Was it a site update?

zach20042013

mamea_K wrote:
Dear Scratch Team, I have encountered a bug in this project where the costumes turn into question marks (“?”):シューティング -The dawn 外伝-Shooting Game “The dawn sidestories”　ver.3.35
This issue mainly occurs with the sprite named “3:敵”. If possible, I would highly appreciate it if scratch team could fix this bug and restore the costumes.
Thank you for your time and assistance.
Sincerely,

Ðat's ðe Same One As Last Time

Nanakos003

I am fixing the costumes that has question marks on it, but in a few days, the ? boxes keeps on popping up on the same project..

TimothyLawyer

hi Nanakos003, i saw you posted this comment in the other thread and am quoting it here so there is a chance a scratch team member will see it and may be able to help fix your project soon

Nanakos003 wrote:
My literal story also has these ? with a grey box https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1258227874 is an example. I'm in a new account @BDstudent6a is my old account that got closed because it was a student account.. Did Scratch ever try working on fixing this glitch..? It's been going on since 2019

magnificentmystery

Solution? Anybody?

Nicpet99888

for the future, back up projects, even if they're unfinished

TimothyLawyer

magnificentmystery wrote:
Solution? Anybody?

patience

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.

TBMTheFunniestPerson

Nicpet99888 wrote:
for the future, back up projects, even if they're unfinished

real (thank god i archived those)

TBMTheFunniestPerson

the bug is still there, the repair phase is in progress yet, the outbreaks' still there (actually)

miggy_back3

i also encountered the question mark box in my first project but luckily, it's fixed now, the link to my first project is https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1295733484/

Last edited by miggy_back3 (June 5, 2026 04:31:05)

TimothyLawyer

miggy_back3 wrote:
i also encountered the question mark box in my first project but luckily, it's fixed now,

did you fix it or did it fix on its own?

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