Talk:Tutorials/Recover corrupted saved world data

How do you retain worlds when you use a new PC ?????
 * Before you get rid of the old computer, go to the Minecraft saves folder (location varies depending on whether you're on Mac, PC or Linux)
 * Copy the saved games you care about onto a thumb drive, CD, NAS drive or any other convenient location
 * Install Minecraft on the new computer
 * Quit Minecraft (just as a precaution)
 * Go to the empty Minecraft saves folder on the new computer and copy the stuff off the thumb drive (or whatever you used) into it.
 * Restart Minecraft
 * You should see your old worlds appear in the list of available saves.

--82.69.54.207 13:59, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

Signs and command blocks
Does signs and command block texts get recovered? (I'm worry about signs text) --Gabriponte22 (talk) 15:47, 14 June 2015 (UTC)


 * I think yes. Minecraft files got blocks NBT, so they will recover because in the file there are saved also the blocks NBT. --Gabriponte22 (talk) 15:52, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

What about...
Wouldn't doing tis cause a few problems? 1. The seed will be wrong. 2. What about your inventory and other things? I think that there should be an included section on how to use nbtedit to read the .dat file. Also maybe you should include a section on how corruption is caused an what it means?Pokechu22 20:22, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

going back to a previously saved session
Hi is it possible to log into your minecraft world on a previous day in effect to delete today's play where things have gone wrong? Thanks 90.212.161.23 18:36, 27 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Look up on Windows Help and Support "Previous versions: frequently asked questions." That should help. 😊 AwesomeMan31415926 (profile|contribs) 09:19, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

Minecraft pocket edition world freeze
For some reason my world in minecraft pocket edition has frozen. It's the new update 0.9.5. Once i go onto it, it will freeze for about 15 seconds then go back to the home screen. Anyone have any clues to how I can get my world back? Thanks

This need to be rewritten
This only for macs! Sure I use a mac but I also use pcs and If someone who really needs save a world and can't understand this must be rewritten for both macs and pcs!

Okay... but
While this does work, and all the things I build are completely fine, there's still something seriously wrong with the world. Right next to where I spawned, there was desert and grassland (while the world was customized and the biome set to 'mesa') suddenly cutting into the mesa landscape. It's like part of the world created to get my structures back is generated along with the previous world... Anybody else had this?

88.159.122.87 14:46, 8 June 2015 (UTC) Somebody who's laptop crashed


 * You are experiencing – KnightMiner  t/c 01:02, 9 June 2015 (UTC)


 * I see. Any way to fix/prevent it?


 * 88.159.122.87 05:02, 9 June 2015 (UTC) Somebody who's laptop crashed


 * The only real solution is to make sure you do not recreate a world with the same name. Though you could use an external editor such as MCEdit and try deleting the chunks in the hope that they generate properly the next time. – KnightMiner  t/c 13:02, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

Alternate method of reobtaining world
I know Windows 7 has a previous versions restore method (see mshelp://Windows/?id=afb7ed89-ed63-4e07-a482-d7004a8f4012), and I've heard that could be used to return a world to a previous uncorrupted state too. Might this be added to the article? AwesomeMan31415926 (profile|contribs) 09:04, 9 June 2015 (UTC)


 * That is not a valid URL. Generally URLs start with "http://". – KnightMiner  t/c 13:02, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

World not being displayed in the list of saved games is the least of all problems...
I think that the article discusses a very minor stage of corruption. Every once in a while the saved world will get really corrupted. For example part of the landscape may disappear. I had once such a terrible happening where in the middle of my base (single player, survival mode) I got an approx. 30x30 hole to bedrock (and my base was almost at the top of a mountain). Another time I got a completely redecorated landscape that cut right through my base. And no, noone else has access to the game files (just to make sure that the "Someone pulled one on you" occurs as a comment to my post). Such corruption is rare but it is there and the article should add a section where it suggests regular backup of the world's data in order to make such disasters as less painful as possible. Conclusion: there are various stages of corruption which may result in a completely wasted data that cannot be recovered.