Uncommitted Drafts metadata files corrupted

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#1

Ever since my last Roblox Studio crash, I’ve been experiencing an issue where uncommitted drafts are lost.

Every time I open an experience that contains uncommitted drafts, a warning appears, and all draft files are immediately lost. This makes it impossible to recover any unsaved work.

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The issue happens with both existing and newly created projects.

I’ve already tried the following troubleshooting steps, but none of them fixed the problem:

  • Reinstalling Roblox Studio
  • Resetting Windows
  • Logging in with a different Roblox account

I’m still encountering the same issue after trying all of the above.

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#2

I’ve also started suddenly receiving this today, however I didn’t experience a crash at any point.

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#3

Hey I just ran into this issue and lost many hours of work because I had to restart Studio. But you might still be able to recover your drafts if you look under here (Windows):

\AppData\Local\Roblox\Sandbox\PLACE_ID\USER_ID\drafts

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#4

Yes you can do that but my main issue still remains. I cant close the experience with an uncommited draft or it will be lost the next time i open it.

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#5

thank you, you saved me a lot of misery

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#6

The issue no longer happening.

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#7

this fixed mine, just copied over some code and its good now. im moving to a vscode/rojo based production now, as roblox studio seems to be unreliable. had over 2 thousand lines i was luckily able to get back when searching through the drafts.

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#8

Also experienced this, did not have any crashes, but a bug with new Explorer, restarted Roblox Studio and Draft issue started happening. The feature seems to write fine to a file and I am able to recover my code from the actual file in my computer, however they don’t appear in the Roblox Script editor themselves.

#9

Having the same issue as of today. Got the same popup telling me all my drafts were corrupted when I joined my usual team create place. Never happened before

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#10

I’ve had this happen 5+ times in the last 24 hours with the most recent incident being just a few minutes ago, this issue is very much still happening.

This problem is being significantly more intrusive due to the ongoing bug where Studio freezes after a playtest, which forces you to open a new Studio window, and this issue happens immediately afterwards. Any time I stop a playtest there’s a risk of Studio freezing and me having open a new window and manually recover all of my drafts. It’s taking up a lot of time and is very frustrating to have to work around. Would appreciate a quick fix on this.

#11

Sorry about the inconvenience. The issue should be resolved now. Thank you for your patience. If you’re still having trouble:

  1. Restart Studio
  2. Manually recover your script drafts. You can find them in this folder on your computer: {pathToYourRobloxFolder}/Roblox/Sandbox/{placeId}/{userId}/drafts. Please note that the files are not named their original script names. To find the original names, look for the ScriptName field within the corresponding .meta files located here: {pathToYourRobloxFolder}/Roblox/Sandbox/{placeId}/{userId}/meta

Hopefully, these steps resolve the problem. Feel free to reach out if you are still experiencing this issue.

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