accidentally renamed folder, work gone?

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This is my first day using Unity so I apologise if this is silly but–

Today I started a new project to test out some terrain possibilities. Because I didn’t initially intend to keep the project I didn’t set the save location and just went with the default name. However, I did decide to keep it so I stupidly went into finder and changed the folder’s name which caused a fatal error. Now when I go to open up my project the terrain is gone (under hierarchy). Is my work gone for good???

Have you opened up your scene? If Unity crashed and you didn't save then your work is definitely gone...

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You just renamend the project folder, which contains the folders “Assets” and “Library”, and maybe “Temp”? That shouldn’t be a problem. Maybe you lost the scene you were working on (hence the empty “Hierarchy” view), but all your individual assets are still there, in the “Project” view. Find your terrain there, and just drag it into the Hierarchy view, and start from there.

Oh thank you. I did just lose my scene. Dragging it to the hierarchy worked. Can you suggest anything about saving projects and scenes at once though? And also since I didn't set my save location is there any easy way to reset and move everything now?

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@Wolfram
I hope I’m not bothering you by reviving this topic, but it’s similar to my problem.
Today I stareted using Unity and I decided to include Standard asset example, the one with the car and (i’ll call it) the “race testing ground”.

Everything worked just fine until I decided to go on “new Scene”. Now I don’t know how to get back on the “race testing grounds” example with car and other objects. What should I do?

Sorry to be blunt - but what you should really do is check out the beginner tutorials http://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/topics/interface-essentials - it will help you much more than asking such very basic questions. Also, please don't revive old questions with unrelated additional question. This site works by asking specific questions. Anything else is supposed to be an answer - not another question. If you still have questions after reading the beginner tutorials, feel free to open a new question.

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