I’m not sure if this is the right place to get help with it, but I’ll go ahead with the hope that it’s alright.
Basically, when I opened Roblox Studio today, I found out that, to my horror, a huge script was just missing from StarterCharacterScripts, even though I am sure I had never deleted it. The more mortifying thing however, is that it’s not only missing from this version, but every single version I revert this place to, even the one that is currently published, which does in fact seem to have the script running, when I start it on a real server. If I try to run that same version in Roblox Studio nothing happens, so it’s not only a weird visual glitch.
Has anyone else experienced something like that before? Any ideas on what I can do to get this fixed?
Did you accidentally select it and drag it to another spot in the Explorer window?
I sometimes find if I’m too quick with my fingers while moving stuff in the Explorer window it’ll select an item and then try to insert it into another Part or Model in the list.
Try the Search bar at the top of the Explorer window if you know what the script was named.
Do you have team create enabled?
If so make sure you have fully published the script in studio, I haven’t used collab editing in a bit but im pretty sure you have to publish the script inside the “Draft” menu for it to fully publish on studio.
Although from that, also check your auto save recovery files as the script may have ended up in there
Edit: whoops didnt notice the comment above.
Check its exact location inside of roblox (for loop through every script in the roblox console to see its exact full name with :GetFullName()
It’s definitely nowhere in the file explorer, because I only have so many things in there I can go through them manually. See, the script is or at this point was a procedura terrain generator, so that handled all of that for me, thus there are no parts in the game at all.
I do have team editing enabled, but I did not enable collaborative editing of scripts. Nevertheless, where do you think I would find the draft menu? Or would I even find it at all, if collab editing is off?
I don’t think you can find the draft menu if collab editing is off, if you could it would be in the View tab (next to plugins).
Are you sure nobody else had deleted it? This is a really strange occurrence in my opinion, maybe check place versions to see if the place was edited at a time you may have not edited it at? Also maybe check your beta features as some of them can break studio under certain circumstances (not assuming any would just delete a script from all place versions, they shouldn’t)
Same with plugins, check those too, I have no idea anymore.
The place wasn’t edited by anyone but me, I checked the times of edits against my discord bot that shows be a graph of exactly when other people are online, and the only other person who has access to this place was asleep at that time. Not that I would accuse them of deleting that script.
The only beta setting that is on is the verbose output, which must’ve been like that by default.
The strangest thing is that this script is gone from every version of the place I revert to, even though the one currently published works perfectly fine when you play it. Then when I try to open the place having reverted back to the functional version, the script just isn’t there.