Is there a data recovery tool for Linux to recover a Minecraft world?
So I uninstalled Zenless Zone Zero yesterday via Wine, and it seems it just deleted every game, KDE configs, etc.
These weren't really an issue for me, but my old worlds have gone to waste too. Unfortunately, my drive is on ext4, and I haven't used Timeshift cause low storage space. Is there any chance for me to recover back some data?
The AUR wiki never fails to amaze.
You know Minecraft works natively on Linux? Except if you run the more optimized, faster "Bedrock" version, which for very important Microsoft reasons is Windows-only. Or Android, so people play the android version, lol.
For recovery you can use testdisk. Shutdown the PC as fast as possible. Dont open programs! Dont play games!
On SSDs the data will quickly be overwritten otherwise.
Make a Clonezilla live usb and use that for recovery
Well I actually use native Minecraft too, if the Prism Launcher actually creates native instances by default. Luckily I have realised that there is probably a saved version of my world on a cloud storage, but I will def try testdisk out! Thank you.
I hope your PC is off. Dont use it. Otherwise that data is gone.
Bedrock also runs under Linux. At least, it did 6 months ago, when I tried...
How is it today? I find it crazy that not even the most rewarding game of the world couldnt be fully rewritten in a faster language.
It was (and may still be) possible to make an older version of Pocket Edition run on Linux through unofficial shenanigans, but the official launcher says "Not playable on this device".
minecraft.net also explicitly says: "Minecraft: Java Edition runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux; Minecraft: Bedrock Edition runs on Windows. Deluxe Collection content only runs on Minecraft: Bedrock Edition on Windows."
Other unofficial shenanigans that may or may not work include but are not limited to: Running under a VM, running under something like Wine.
So, yes, technically it runs, but Microsoft are pretty clear that it's not supposed to.
It semi does, iirc it's a port of the Android version, which probably works because android uses a Linux kernel
hold on,
did it only delete the programms gone too?
open your home folder and set the option to show hidden files.
if there is a .minecraft folder check the saves folder inside that.
is it not in the trashbin?
i have used photorec to resore deleted files on several occasions.
but i dont think there is a filetype for minecraft worlds available
Well it definitely isn't in the trashbin, and nowhere in the filesystem since I've done a find cmd search on all the directories, and also checked the .minecraft folder's saves, but thank you for the idea tho!
testdisk and photorec.
I did a similar boneheaded move by rm -rfing my Minecraft server directory.
Depending on how much free space is on the drive and how much data as been over written will depend on how much of the world files you recover. High probability it's gone.
The thing that saved my server world files was I had Dynmap plugin installed. Dynmap is a world mapping plugin that creates hundreds of thousands of png/jpg files. This caused a delay in the rm command and that made me realize what was happening and stop the process. The damage was already done though.
Oh roger that I'm gonna try out these then. Well if I'm right, then I might have saved a version of my world on a cloud storage, but I have never needed to do data recovery on Linux yet.
I've heard of "Disk Driller" but I have no idea how sletchy it is or if it'd work
Hmm this sounds like a great idea, although I was already planning to get a new nvme SSD, but good to know options like these exists.
If it's not a cheap knock off USB stick, then yea it's probably more than enough.
Make sure you get the flash drive from a reputable seller. Sites like amazon have lots of fakes that are actually a much lower capacity than they report.
Another option is a SSD and external enclosure.
yesterday
Have you shut down the disk immediately then?
Yeah unfortunately, but atleast I have found my minecraft world on a cloud storage, so day have been saved sorta. I just only need to reinstall some games, and configs.
Ohh thank you for the recommendation!
Use bottles as it has sandboxing. Alternatively you could manually setup bubblewrap with a wine environment.
this will not help op in any way with what they need. Which is to recover data already lost.
So in other words, thank you, Captain Hindsight!
I meant this as a suggestion going forward