Removed project from list, With no backup.

okay so I’ve been working on a project for quite sometime, me being me, forgot to make a backup. I accidentally removed it from my list. Question 1. is there a place for deleted files. Question 2. I have a build of it, will that help.

Removing a Project off the list in the Unity Hub does not delete the Project itself.

On Windows, Projects are usually stored under C:\Users\%userprofile%\Documents\Unity Projects by default. See if you can find your Project in there.

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Please consider using source control in order to guard and protect your hard-earned work.

Personally I use git because it is free and there are tons of tutorials out there to help you set it up.

Here’s how I use git in one of my games, Jetpack Kurt:

Using fine-grained source control as you work to refine your engineering:

Share/Sharing source code between projects:

How did you “accidentally removed it from my list”? If it was removed from the list of projects in the Hub, that could mean the project folder was just moved elsewhere. If that is the case, just find it and either move it back or add its new location back to the Hub. To find it, I’d search your computer for a folder named Assets, or any file ending in .meta.

You can also check your recycle bin in case you accidentally moved it there. When you delete asset files in Unity they normally are just moved to the recycle bin, but it would depend how you potentially deleted the entire project as to whether it would end up in the recycle bin.

As for the question about the build, no that is not likely to help.