Is it possible to recover deleted projects?

[Jamendxman3]

@The Britain;322307

When using a recovery software like Backtrack or Recuva, do not try to recover the entire deleted folder, there are just to many files with Unreal and you will get multiple copies. I mean, you can try for the folder first, but if you don’t get the whole thing, it will just be corrupted anyhow.

Focus on finding and recovering certain time consuming assets. Say you worked for a week on a shader, try to recover that file. If you are not familiar with the Unreal file structure, get familiar with it first before attempting this, so you know what you are looking for. Also, do not use the computer that you are going to attempt the recovery on, the more you use it, the more you lose.

Also, backup. There are those who back-up, and those who have yet learned to back-up. You need to be making regular backups of your projects. To reduce size, do not include “Binaries”, “Saved”, or the “Intermediate” folders.

Yes, backing up files is very important, a task for someone reading this is to make a file that backs up your project’s important folders to a given location, could save some time if all someone has to do is open up a batch file. If you make one, maybe go put it in the ‘community content & tools’ forum area.