When I reverted my place version to copy an object I accidentally deleted, I couldn’t revert it back until after I had published the reverted version.
I had deleted a piece of my workspace without knowing and had continued to do work only to discover later that one object I had “moved” somehow got deleted. Which is when I decided to revert place version to copy that one item and then revert it back.
I published the place and went onto the website and reverted to a version published before that (version 276) (current before reverting was 277.) Once I had copied the object I closed studio and clicked on revert for version 277 only to discover that it wouldn’t let me revert. The UI would just refresh as normal without changing anything.
Work around:
I then decided to get a bit more creative to see if I could out smart this “bug” so I went back in studio and published what I had reverted to then went back and it let me revert to version 277.
Publish place (this created version 57 in my example)
Revert place to an older version (this created version 58 in my example)
Attempt to revert to the most recently published version (version 57 in my example)
Open game in roblox studio
Game will not be in the correct version
Summary of what I think is going on:
Attempts to revert to the last published version of a place do not do anything.
Expected behaviour: reverting to the last published version of a place should be successful, because the last published version of a place might not be the same as the last saved version.
The current workaround is to publish something else, then attempt to revert, as OP said. After you do this, it works. I did not realise this workaround, and thought I had lost a lot of work. I might have just done the work again if I did not find this thread.
If you have Team Create enabled, you need to disable it, close studio, revert the game, and then open studio back. From here you can enable Team Create again.
The reason for this is the auto-save made by Team Create (from closing studio), overrides the revert.
This is most definitely a bug that NEEDS to be addressed as soon as possible. I’m currently having the same issue and no matter what I do, I can’t seem to get that workaround to work either.
This bug is still happening and is having a significant impact on my development work. The workaround does indeed work, however I had only just discovered this thead and so had lost a major amount of time where I could have been making stuff.
Thanks @helperobc for the report & a very big thanks for the workaround. Thought I had lost a lot of work.
Unlike the others I was using team create, in a group game. This needs to be fixed.
Here it is November and the bug still ever present. Thanks for this info, it helped me revert a place to get models and placement from its older version, and then bring them into the last published version.
I did have to publish after the revert just so I could go back to the last published version.
I hope Roblox fixes it soon. It’s December, and if it’s not fixed I may have to cancel a project that I have put a lot of effort into (I don’t own the game, so I can’t do anything related to team create) because of a studio camera issue preventing me from building.
I tried that, unfortunately when I tried to open a previous version through that, and it just crashed. I’m lucky, I have a place recovery file of it, so I can copy non broken stuff to the recovery version.
im so so sorry this happened to you i use BTRoblox Chrome plugin so i can avoid this issue, which allows you to download an old version of a place without having to revert back to it. it gives a handy dandy button that says “Download” that has saved me so many times.
Bug still happens to this day when I reverted because I was recovering a script I accidently overriden then
I switched to the newer version to input the script. It didn’t work and it is still stuck. I also tried downloading the old version and it crashed
Edit: After a few tries it went to the latest version
(sorry for necroposting)
i use BTRoblox Chrome plugin so i can avoid this issue, which allows you to download an old version of a place without having to revert back to it. it gives a handy dandy button that says “Download” that has saved me so many times.