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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?

FQQD ,
@FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz avatar

I’ve heard of “Disk Driller” but I have no idea how sletchy it is or if it’d work

Kerb ,
@Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

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

PrivateNoob OP ,

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!

Kerb ,
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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.

angel ,

wiki.archlinux.org/title/File_recovery#Ext4Magic

PrivateNoob OP ,

The AUR wiki never fails to amaze.

lurch ,

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    PrivateNoob OP ,

    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.

    cmnybo ,

    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.

    boredsquirrel , (edited )
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    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

    dukatos ,

    Bedrock also runs under Linux. At least, it did 6 months ago, when I tried…

    boredsquirrel ,
    @boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net avatar

    Interesting didnt know that.

    Wait, or is this the mobile version which runs through an Android container? Emulator?

    dukatos ,

    Yes

    boredsquirrel ,
    @boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net avatar

    So not native on Linux. Is the Android version even usable?

    dukatos ,

    I managed to connect to a local server and play a while. I gave up quickly because lack of languages, already present in Java version.

    boredsquirrel ,
    @boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net avatar

    No fun without pirate speak!

    boredsquirrel ,
    @boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net avatar

    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.

    independantiste ,
    @independantiste@sh.itjust.works avatar

    It semi does, iirc it’s a port of the Android version, which probably works because android uses a Linux kernel

    palordrolap ,

    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.

    boredsquirrel ,
    @boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net avatar

    Well I guess they needed to do at least one shit apart from locking accounts and requiring to be in their hellscape?

    Btw, trying to get the sky dimension running, the official minecraft launcher is the only one creating .rar and .json for the version.

    palordrolap ,

    Do you mean the Aether mod that recently got updated or something else?

    Installing mods to Java Minecraft can be a chore regardless of the ecosystem. And usually it's a third party mod loader that adds a new version to the default launcher config, not something provided by Mojang.

    That said, Aether is a Forge mod and I haven't used Forge in a few years at this point, so maybe things are different now, or I'm only remembering the way that the rival Fabric ecosystem works instead.

    boredsquirrel ,
    @boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net avatar

    No the real sky dimension, which was hidden from beta 1.6 to 1.9 but not activated.

    I used the beta 1.6 for a while but it is so old…

    I used a spider spawner to get strings, to make wool, to make a bed.

    The only mobs were chickens, which just dropped useless feathers.

    PrivateNoob OP ,

    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.

    boredsquirrel ,
    @boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net avatar

    I hope your PC is off. Dont use it. Otherwise that data is gone.

    SnowBlind2005 ,
    @SnowBlind2005@vivaldi.net avatar

    @PrivateNoob

    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.

    PrivateNoob OP ,

    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.

    NeoNachtwaechter ,

    yesterday

    Have you shut down the disk immediately then?

    PrivateNoob OP ,

    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.

    possiblylinux127 ,

    Use bottles as it has sandboxing. Alternatively you could manually setup bubblewrap with a wine environment.

    PrivateNoob OP ,

    Oh I haven’t heard of bubblewrap before. What’s that?

    possiblylinux127 ,

    It is a sandboxing program that isolates programs from the system. It is what Flatpak uses behind the scenes

    PrivateNoob OP ,

    Ahh so that is the main tech Bottles and Flatpak uses then, right? Good to know.

    vrighter ,

    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!

    possiblylinux127 ,

    I meant this as a suggestion going forward

    dario ,

    Free of charge, non libre software, but an effective tool nonetheless, in case you will need it in the future: www.r-studio.com/it/free-linux-recovery/

    PrivateNoob OP ,

    Ohh thank you for the recommendation!

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