Move them back, and you're (I'm) all set! emacs.d, and other config data you might want. It puts them instead in c:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\saves which is basically like a temp folder of sorts for config data.įortunately after my initial freak out, even these files aren't lost, they are in C:\ Windows.old\users\YOURNAME\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\saves along with all your other AppData stuff including the npm-cache.
I thought Windows promised to not change my files!? Well, sadly Minecraft doesn't save worlds in 'My Documents\Minecraft,' where it should. All my files were backed up to the cloud and every file was where I left it. And it's (99%) true, because when I got Windows back up later my Documents and Desktop were just as I left them, untouched by the this major operation.įortunately I used Boxstarter, Chocolately, and a list of the programs I have installed as a Gist and was able to get my Windows machine with all my desktop programs back up and running in a few hours. It just wouldn't start up and I had to run 'Refresh my PC,' a very cool feature of Windows that basically mostly reinstalls Windows without reinstalling. Well, not really, I have a very regular Backup Strategy (stop reading this blog post NOW and back your stuff up!) so I could get stuff back if I really needed to.īut a laptop died today.
