Unity crashed and I lost entire scene. Can it be recovered?

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So, I have been working on a unity project for some time, I made nice scene, but today, unity crashed and my scene was lost. I didn't had any backups because the last thing that would come into my mind is loosing scene like this. Anyway, does anybody know the way how to get it back? I have menaged to restore some unity temp files, that were lost, but looks like they have nothing to do with the scene. Also, I have my game with this scene built, so maybe there is way to restore scene via built game? Anyway, if there is no way to restore this, I am happy that it happen now, because it could have happen in about a year, when I may had finished my game, so only thing that will be left to me then is to kill myself.

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Answer by FairGamesProductions · Nov 07, 2014 at 10:07 AM

This is why I have made saving the scene a reflex. I basically hit Ctrl+S after every change to the scene. Sometimes Unity WILL crash, so making saving a habit helps minimize the damage. Because if it crashes before the first save, you will loose the entire scene. And as an added precaution, use 7Z to make backups of your project folder when going to bed.

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hi1357357 · Feb 10, 2016 at 09:29 PM 0

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Ya, I do that too.

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Answer by meat5000 · Feb 10, 2016 at 06:38 PM

Answer by Eric5h5:

http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/13920/editor-crash-where-is-scene-data-kept.html

Provided you do not load Unity straight away after the crash, you can recover your scene.

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Answer by gtaylor1899 · Feb 16, 2016 at 01:03 PM

Don't restart Unity until you recover your temporary file.

We did the same thing @FairGamesProductions. Saving both the project and the scene repeatedly, our scene was obliterated immediately when restarting Unity after it stopped responding.

All the best luck!!!

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Answer by gtaylor1899 · Feb 16, 2016 at 01:04 PM

Don't restart Unity until you recover the temporary scene file.

We did the same thing @FairGamesProductions. We save both our Unity project and scene repeatedly. The scene was lost entirely when restarting Unity after it stopped responding.

Good luck!!!

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Answer by gtaylor1899 · Feb 16, 2016 at 01:04 PM

@meat5000 is totally right. Don't restart Unity until you recover the temporary scene file.

We did the same thing as @FairGamesProductions. We save both our Unity project and scene repeatedly. The scene was lost entirely when restarting Unity after it stopped responding.

Good luck!!!

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