Accidentally deleted entire projet

[antonneelen]

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!

[g-andresen]

Hi,

try this

günther

[HughesTooling]

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.

[antonneelen]

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.

[HughesTooling]

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

[jhackney1972]

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

[Phil.E]

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

[karina.harper]

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:

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