I have been trying for hours to get my terraria data back, last night I got angry so I saved and quit and shut off my computer really fast and I didn't give it enough time to save so now the data is corrupted. I've tried everything, I've tried YouTube tutorials telling me to rename the bak file to a wld file and it still hasn't worked. I recently found a file that was from that world that has data in it but even when I put it in the worlds file it still did not work, I've tried restoring previous versions and I don't see any previous versions. I've looked checked every world file I duplicated in the process and I took the one that has data in it and copied it into the worlds file and yet nothing works. What do I do? I'm about to have a panic attack because I've spent 11+ hours on this world alone and I can't afford to lose the progress

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I have been trying for hours to get my terraria data back, last night I got angry so I saved and quit and shut off my computer really fast and I didn't give it enough time to save so now the data is corrupted. I've tried everything, I've tried YouTube tutorials telling me to rename the bak file to a wld file and it still hasn't worked. I recently found a file that was from that world that has data in it but even when I put it in the worlds file it still did not work, I've tried restoring previous versions and I don't see any previous versions. I've looked checked every world file I duplicated in the process and I took the one that has data in it and copied it into the worlds file and yet nothing works. What do I do? I'm about to have a panic attack because I've spent 11+ hours on this world alone and I can't afford to lose the progress

Answer 1

I'm sorry to hear that you are experiencing this issue. It sounds like you have tried a lot of different methods to recover your data, but unfortunately, it seems like the corruption may be too severe to fix.

One last thing you could try is to see if you have a backup of your terraria save files on an external hard drive or cloud storage. If you have a backup, you can try replacing the corrupted files with the backup files to see if that restores your progress.

If you don't have a backup, I recommend reaching out to the Terraria community forums or support team for additional help and guidance. They may have more advanced techniques or solutions that you have not tried yet.

I know how frustrating and upsetting it can be to lose progress in a game you have invested a lot of time in. Take a deep breath and try to stay calm. Hopefully, there is a solution out there that can help you recover your data. Good luck!