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[olazaboll]

Worked on my hole today ...was quite happy with the achivements ... so I was planning to make a new save to play it in PG .... Decided I should JUST go in and delete the FlyBy that didnt work first...thought I had selected it , and pressed delete .... noticed I couldnt go back on the TAB button ... nothing responded ,,,, so I closed the program Unity.... and when open Unity again I had only the hole , No Terrain.... Any chance I can recover this ? ..... 

 

[olazaboll]

If you didn't do an undo immediately, you are out of luck, I'm sorry to say.  I'm pretty sure it can't be recovered.  Since the Terrain is "live" when you deleted it, it's gone.

Thx for responding Art ... I did press CNTRL / Z .... but nothing happen ...as I described I felt that Unity didnt respont to my commands on the control board, so I closed it with the mouse that was working .... I dint see the terrain was deleted until unity opened up again.

Now I think this whole thing made me understand the saving process a little better , so here is maybe some good news , I just need them to be confirmed:

I did back up the terrain just before I did that last bit ( creating a bunker , smoothing the green ) .... So am I correct that I can load that saved terrain, and redraw all the splines, (because its empty with splines )....and than Im good again !? ....  Am I right ?

[Mike Jones]

You have a save terrain funtion in the perfectparallel menu, this is detailed in the saving tutorial. If you have been using that as instructed and have a recent backup you can simply load it back in again via the same menu. No need to do it any other way. All your splines will still be there in your most recent saved scene so no need to redraw them.

[olazaboll]

Thankfully I must have done just that , so all look fine now ....So if you want to save your work on extarnal HD or a USB Stick ...it is a copy of the Saved Scene file, and a copy of the back up terrainfile that shall go in there ....right?

[Mike Jones]

Correct - I always save the scene and backup the terrain at the same time so I don't lose any work if the worst happens.

[johnmeyer]

Wouldn't you need to save the entire project folder, not just the scene file and terrain to external, otherwise all assets would be missing from scene?

[DPRoberts]

Yes. Mike is referencing regular local saving. His method correctly loads everything assuming you still have all the folders and files in the project. It would allow you to revert to a previously constructed scene. Like a restore point. For a proper external backup, you would save your entire project folder through your file explorer, not inside Unity. The easiest thing is to backup your entire Unity folder (containing all your projects) to an external. My Windows machine does this every 12 hours. You may want to do this more often if you do a lot of work in a day. The other point is the regular saving of the scene and the backup of the terrain using the perfect parallel menu. I reflexively save the scene when I walk away from the computer, when I'm going to test play in the editor, when I compile a build, and when my internal clock says it has been awhile since saving. Nothing is completely fail safe. I also rarely close out of Unity. If you have Windows 10, I would change the update settings to require your permission to reboot. Mine used to randomly say things like "machine will reboot at 545" and I'd spend the next 5 minutes like I was defusing a bomb making sure I didn't lose anything. Windows 10 is better than previous but sometimes pushy.

[Crow357]

Personally, I just dump the entire project folder onto an external drive once a week.  If my computer dies sometime during the week, I got bigger problems that the loss of a couple day's work.