Unity Version Control messed up my 50k download game.

[PlaycideStudio]

Hi.

The unity version control messed up my 50k download game.

I deleted the repo before after using it, and today I decided to use it again.

But I saw the error that says press the undo and I pressed it.

And now, my project’s all the assets are gone. The 19GB became 1MB.

I need your help. How can I solve this? Please I’m desperate. I have a backup project, but it takes sometime and I’m asking for help. What should I do?

[ollieblanks]

Really sorry to hear about your loss of work.

Unfortunately, if the changes on your local machine have been “undone”, then they are not recoverable. Also if the repository was deleted from the Cloud (and it has been more than a week since the deletion), there will be nothing to recover from our servers. The only solution at this point would be to use a local backup.

If the deletion was performed less than a week ago, then the repository can be undeleted in the full Unity Version Control client application by right-clicking on the deleted repository and selecting “Undelete”

Hope this helps!

[PlaycideStudio]

@ollieblanks

Really sorry to hear about your loss of work.

Unfortunately, if the changes on your local machine have been “undone”, then they are not recoverable. Also if the repository was deleted from the Cloud (and it has been more than a week since the deletion), there will be nothing to recover from our servers. The only solution at this point would be to use a local backup.

If the deletion was performed less than a week ago, then the repository can be undeleted in the full Unity Version Control client application by right-clicking on the deleted repository and selecting “Undelete”

Hope this helps!

@ollieblanks

Really sorry to hear about your loss of work.

Unfortunately, if the changes on your local machine have been “undone”, then they are not recoverable. Also if the repository was deleted from the Cloud (and it has been more than a week since the deletion), there will be nothing to recover from our servers. The only solution at this point would be to use a local backup.

If the deletion was performed less than a week ago, then the repository can be undeleted in the full Unity Version Control client application by right-clicking on the deleted repository and selecting “Undelete”

Hope this helps!

Okay. Can I ask you one more thing? If I want to make the repository for the same project in different name, do I have to just change the name and make it? Will it not connect to deleted old project?

Because this happened when I recreate the repo with the same name that was deleted and was trying to sync.

Or do I have to delete the folder of Version Control?( I forgot the name. Something like .git)

[carlosalba1985]

@PlaycideStudio

Okay. Can I ask you one more thing? If I want to make the repository for the same project in different name, do I have to just change the name and make it? Will it not connect to deleted old project?

If you delete the cloud repository (a database with the history and previous versions of the project), you can create a new repository with the same name and start from scratch, committing the version you currently have on disk.
If you actually deleted the local workspace (working copy) but still kept the cloud repository, you should be able to recover the latest version you committed of it.

@PlaycideStudio

Because this happened when I recreate the repo with the same name that was deleted and was trying to sync.

My guess is you created a new repository with the same name but it was empty, so when you updated your local workspace, it removed some of your local files.

It’s important to differentiate local workspace (working copy of the project) and repository (database with the history of the project) in Plastic SCM: https://docs.plasticscm.com/user/plastic-scm-version-control-introduction-guide#Repositories