HELP!!! Scene File overwritten after import package

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I'm going CRAZY!!!!! I just import a package from another collegue witch contains several scenes. But it turns out he have a scene with same name of one of mine. And after importing, my scene is overwritten by his!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WTF.

I tried ctrl + z, but not working. So I just close the project without saving. And when I reopen it it seems my scene will gone forerver. There's no deleted scene file in garbage neither. Errrrrr, The Entired Scene Of Mine is GONE!!!!!!!!! I don't want to go through it again!!!!!!

I notice the odd thing is the last change time of my scene file is realy far away, while the meta file has changed just now. I'm wondering Where The H Unity stores my scene data!

Is it possible to get it back? Plz Help me out of this Plz.

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Answer by TonyLi · Dec 11, 2013 at 02:07 PM

I think we all suspect that you don't have backups or version control set up. As Graham Dunnett writes, don't bother trying to rescue the scene from your project. It's gone.

Have you sent any packages to your colleague that might contain the original scene? Perhaps you could find a copy in your sent mail.

For the future, here are some helpful links to set up version control:

Using External Version Control Systems with Unity
Using Version Control with Unity
Git, Unity3D, and Dropbox <-- I use this all the time

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Sparrowfc · Dec 11, 2013 at 02:28 PM 1

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Fine, I'll need some time to grief first. Darn, usually I use SVN, but this one is pretty small at begin and i work soly, so.

NickP_2 · Sep 30, 2014 at 09:06 PM 2

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Well fuck my life I just lost 3 days of work. UNITY Y U NO $$anonymous$$A$$anonymous$$E WARNING SCREEN

Fattie · Feb 23, 2015 at 05:30 PM 4

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it's utterly insane that

(a) importing packages JUST OVERWRITS stuff and

(b) there is no warning.

"use version control" is not an excuse for unity's madness. overwriting with no warning at all? huh?

xXWarmachineRoXx Fattie · May 31 at 10:25 AM 0

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I feel you, bro! it just happened to me. ( coincidently I too lost 3 days of work) But only the scene items were changed so I just have to import and tweak little things.

But if unity doesn't, I'll make an asset to prevent overwrites ( yes I know that version control exists)

Czar-Man · Oct 29, 2018 at 05:25 PM 0

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If this is still true, then it's clearly Unity's fault for not adding safety nets. I just killed some major changes after importing scenes. There is no excuse for destroyed projects.

Makkezi · Mar 26, 2019 at 06:01 PM 0

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O$$anonymous$$G! I have the same problem but the files did not have the same names, and scene was also overwritten, what has changed for today?

TonyLi Makkezi · Mar 26, 2019 at 06:14 PM 0

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It's probably the same issue as the OP back in 2013. Assets such as scenes are identified by GUID. If you rename or move a scene file, it will still have the same GUID. When you import a package, it shows you which files it will add or overwrite based on their GUIDs. Get your original scene file back from version control. Then duplicate it (Ctrl+D) before importing the package, or untick that file when importing.

Makkezi TonyLi · Mar 26, 2019 at 06:21 PM 0

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Yes, there were ticks which files I wanted to transfer, but this is a standard character animation. And they should not have replaced the whole scene.

"Get your original scene file back from version control." ?

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