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Accidentally deleted entire projet

antonneelen — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 08:18:28 GMT

Hi all,

So I just majorly shot myself in the foot, I accidentally deleted my entire project file that housed all of my work I've done on Fusion in the past ~8 years lol.
I had another project file, which was similarly named, but of course, I ended up deleting the wrong one.

Now, is there ANY way I could restore this file, or should I accept that all of it is lost?

Thanks in advance!

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g-andresen — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 08:31:33 GMT

Hi,

try this

günther

Re: Accidentally deleted entire projet

HughesTooling — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 08:45:06 GMT

Did you delete a file or a project? If a project follow @g-andresen 's suggestion to open your hub in a browser then navigate to the home folder and open the Archived tab and you should be able to restore. Or did you actually delete the project then delete from the Archived tab as well? If you did that I think it's gone forever.

Re: Accidentally deleted entire projet

antonneelen — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 08:47:23 GMT

Yep, i deleted the highest level folder, went to archive and pressed delete again.

Now, i’m on an educational license, is it worthwhile upgrading to a paid license to contact support?

Is there anything they’d be able to do from the back-end?

I read I might be able to recover some files locally, but chances of that working are slim as well.

Re: Accidentally deleted entire projet

HughesTooling — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 09:32:37 GMT

Not sure who to tag in for this but @Phil.E might know?

Re: Accidentally deleted entire projet

jhackney1972 — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 16:05:59 GMT

I am not sure even Autodesk can help you on this deletion. The Fusion help page says this:

Re: Accidentally deleted entire projet

Phil.E — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 18:29:40 GMT

This is the key sentence

i deleted the highest level folder, went to archive and pressed delete again.

The archive is to prevent loss of a project
Deleting the archive is how you permanently get rid of a project

I'll ask if there is any trick that remains to be used.

Update: there are no backend tricks remaining.

FWIW, here is the warning

Re: Accidentally deleted entire projet

karina.harper — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:59:58 GMT

While @Phil.E is asking about if there's anything that can be done from a back end standpoint ( @Andy.Spivey )...

If you had opened some of your files in Fusion you might be able to recover some that were recently worked on from the local cache, particularly any designs that are single-level (don't have inserted components/derives). I'm not sure if using hard delete on a project will remove the cache data as well, it's possible that the cache will be empty after a delete.

You could try:

locate the F folder (with Fusion closed)
copy the whole "w.login" folder out to a new location
Open the F folder
Use upload in the data panel to try uploading them back into Fusion.