Entire project gone

Unity Engine
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Running Unity iPhone 1.5.1 Basic edition. I did what I now realise was very naughty and changed the project’s folder name outside of Unity. I was also having some probs with xcode and rebooted the machine.

The project has now vanished. Not in the trash, and none of the files (script, scene, images etc) are on the machine and are not visible from data recovery programs.

I’ve seen reports of scenes disappearing on the forum but not the entire project. Also, the xcode project files are still there, but they’ve moved up a level because the enclosing Unity project folder is gone. I wouldn’t have thought the underlying OS could delete a folder with data in it without explicitly traversing the folder tree.

I was a bit slack with backups and so I have a bit of work to do. That’s my fault. But I’m a bit worried that a project can disappear without trace. Is it likely that the project folder name change did it? Perhaps project data points up a named folder, but I can’t figure out what process would cause the entire project minus the generated xcode files to vanish.

Any feedback appreciated. I’m keen to avoid this happening again.

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I’ve done that before, but the only thing that happens is that Unity complains loudly and then quits. The folder itself is just renamed; doing this can’t cause it to vanish, so I would think it’s there somewhere under the new name.

–Eric

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I have done every thing possible to projects. They don’t disappear on their own. Maybe its their or in your recycling bin.

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Like I said, neither the project nor any of the contents within (except for the xcode files generated by Unity) are on the system. Certainly not in the trash nor visible to a file recovery program. Maybe they found their way to a Unix path not visible to Spotlight.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback. It’s good to know that it’s not a common Unity thing. I can’t see it being an Xcode thing either, but you never know. The latest version has a few issues.