Dude, where's my scene?

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So earlier today i wanted to import a custom package which i have done multiple times and when i did a message popped up saying something along the lines of importing this package will require you to reload your scene. Thinking this was normal i pressed reload after that my entire scene was cleared and all my hard work was gone

I still have the assets but they are no longer in the scene and the scene seemed to be set back to if you had just started. I have worked very hard for about 4 months on this project, if there is anything i can do please let me know; I don’t want to lose all my hard work.

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Maybe reload the scene again? That worked once for me, but im not sure it will work.

3

Is the scene deleted from the hard drive? If you go to where you keep the scenes in the Asset-tree listing and check if the .unity file is there? Then double click it if you find it. I keep my scenes in Assets/Scenes/.

Try also searching for *.unity in the filesystem if you can’t find it.

Personally I would never trust Unity with a project I have invested 4 months in without doing a backup of the project folder. Copy all files and folders inside the unity project but exclude Library, Temp, obj, Logs, UserSettings.