I’ve never encountered something like this before, but the program just vanished. Last night, after some hiatus I continued to work on my game and built the new version to html5 playable. Everything fine, game runs, time to sleep. And today I want to continue where I stopped only to see that the shortcut leads nowhere. No gdevelop.exe. Tried to search for the install, nothing, nowhere, except the projects folder. I guess yesterday it updated to the new beta as it was set on auto update, maybe that’s the reason it decided to delete itself? Did it happen to anyone else?
Edit: Found the install folder, it still exists, but it lacks the executable. Checked antivirus, it didn’t block it.
Probably you stopped the computer just after quitting GDevelop, and the update might not have enough time to finish… It happened once to me few month ago.
Let’s see if someone else report a similar issue before reporting it on github.
With the auto update, when you quit GDevelop the update process start by remove the current version and install the next one, the installation can take few seconds ~5 for me.
If you restart/shutdown/close the session, the install process is canceled, and the new version is missing because the installation was been cancel.
If this thing come to you, you need download GD manually and reinstall it.
All your settings/preferences, AND project are safe. Theses files are not affected by the process.
Sorry to revive the thread years later, but this issue still persists. It happened to me before, but not in a while so I assumed it had been fixed. But today I started up my PC to find the shortcut is still there, but the executable is gone. It’s a bug several people mentioned on Reddit as well. Is there hope this will get looked at and fixed?
I shut down my PC too quickly after exiting Gdevelop.
The next day, my program was completely gone.
By default, are my project files are stored in the installation directory?
So in this case, I lost my projects…
Or does the saves are by default located elsewhere?
I found Gdevelop folders remaining in my Windows files
C:\Users\Me\Documents\GDevelop projects\
Only files I can see are JSON files : .json and .autosave.json.
If I reinstall Gdevelop5, can I recover my entire projects using these JSON files?
There is no default project location other
than your my documents folder. You definitely should never store your projects in your engine install folder (this is true for all game engines, but also tools like art and video editors.)
The json files are your projects. They wont contain any assets themselves, so the assets will be whereever you saved them.
