Scene Didn't Save

So earlier today, after doing lots of work on one of the unity tutorials, i saved the project and turned my pcc off.

I came back later, loaded up the project and what do i find? nothing, The level i was putting together is just gone, right back to barren empty grey space. I swear i saved the project

Am i supposed to save scenes individually too? shouldn't the scene be saved if the whole project is ? While i'm here you guys might as well tell me anything else that isn't covered as a part of the project.

how many things do i need to check and ensure that are saved before i can safely shut down the PC ?

 

Unfortunately no, it doesn't save the current scene, I don't believe. Everything I import into my project is pretty much automatically saved to the file structure.. I don't even really know the intended purpose of Save Project, but I usually just hit them both just to be on the safe side.

 

Are you sure it's just both? only project and scene? I don't want to be asking this same question again next week after falling into another pit.

 

Yeah, every time I hit both Save Scene and Save Project it saves everything.

 

I probably would have actually, it's just that in this incidence i was forced to shut down the PC hard. I started baking lightmaps and after a few minutes i realised my case side fan was unplugged internally and the CPU was overheating rapidly. totally my fault

Are you saying that ctrl+s will save both the scene and the project ?

 

I had the same thing happen to me a few weeks ago. Never made that mistake again.
I now always click Save Project and Save Scene individually to make sure.

 

Just happened to me today, on my first ever project, which I definitely used 'save project' on last night. When I tried 'save' today, I had to name the file. I suspect that 'save project' only works after the scene has already been given a file name - is this how it works?

[edit] https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Saving.html

• To save all Scene changes and Project-wide changes, go to File > Save (or Save as). This is the fastest way to save everything at once.
• To save Project-wide changes, but not Scene changes, go to File > Save Project.

 

This is totally random.. Unity is just another pice of sH**... I used all the saves and save as and everything... still the scene is no longer anywhere to be found on disk... the heck?!?
If it was for me: Unity can go bust... totally useless if the "save" function is not working 100%

 

I'm sorry you've had this issue.

I've been using Unity for 9+ years now and never had Ctrl-S fail to save my scene.

Please consider using proper industrial-grade source control in order to guard and protect your hard-earned work.

Personally I use git (completely outside of Unity) because it is free and there are tons of tutorials out there to help you set it up as well as free places to host your repo (BitBucket, Github, Gitlab, etc.).

As far as configuring Unity to play nice with git, keep this in mind:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/prefab-links-keep-getting-dumped-on-git-pull.646600/#post-7142306

Here's how I use git in one of my games, Jetpack Kurt:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/2-steps-backwards.965048/#post-6282497

Using fine-grained source control as you work to refine your engineering:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/whe...grammer-example-in-text.1048739/#post-6783740

Share/Sharing source code between projects:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/your-techniques-to-share-code-between-projects.575959/#post-3835837

Setting up the right .gitignore file:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/removing-il2cpp_cache-from-project.1084607/#post-6997067

Generally setting Unity up (includes above .gitignore concepts):

https://thoughtbot.com/blog/how-to-git-with-unity

It is only simple economics that you must expend as much effort into backing it up as you feel the work is worth in the first place.

 

I had a similar issue too, where I saved a project/scene perfectly normally, Unity didn't crash and when I loaded it up again it was all gone. No explanation at all, really sucks, and nobody has the audacity to help besides just saying use git. Oh I'm sorry that I didn't expect my project wouldn't save, GitHub wouldn't have helped with that mate