I've lost progress on my saving...

[MarioTheGre]

So uhhh... I've been making a new project, and I don't know what to call it. I was in the middle of making the Yellow Switch palace and then... my PC crashed. Now all of the work of the yellow switch palace is lost. Is there any way to restore a level? Just wondering, as I'm using the all new SMBX2. And if there is, where can I find the recovery file?

[Luna]

Unfortunately, unless you have saved the level before, there is no way to recover it.
This is because the game doesn't auto-save your level.

For this reason, I would recommend you to save your level regularly.

EDIT:
Also posts like this belong in the Help and Support subforum, not in the projects subforum.

[MarioTheGre]

Unfortunately, unless you have saved the level before, there is no way to recover it.
This is because the game doesn't auto-save your level.

For this reason, I would recommend you to save your level regularly.

Ouch. That's gotta hurt. If I could suggest a feature to the SMBX team, I would ask them to add an auto save feature/ auto recover feature.
Trust me. I think that would be nice.

[Cedur]

Also make sure to create backups if you're working on a larger project.

[Rixitic]

Unfortunately we can't implement autosaving on our own; Wohlstand made the editor and is the only one familiar enough with it to make any substantial changes reasonably quickly, and he's been holding off on making any new additions until he can finish an editor rewrite (which he's been promising for several years now.) In the meantime, the improvements we can make are basically limited to the scope of the editor's existing features.

Best we can do is recommend that you save often and, as an extra precaution, set up your project with source control -- usually as a GitHub or Gitlab repository -- and commit your changes to it as you go. It won't preserve any changes beyond what's been manually saved, but each commit can serve as a backup/restore point in case the files somehow get removed or corrupted.

[MarioTheGre]

Also make sure to create backups if you're working on a larger project.

Ok. Thanks!

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Unfortunately we can't implement autosaving on our own; Wohlstand made the editor and is the only one familiar enough with it to make any substantial changes reasonably quickly, and he's been holding off on making any new additions until he can finish an editor rewrite (which he's been promising for several years now.) In the meantime, the improvements we can make are basically limited to the scope of the editor's existing features.

Best we can do is recommend that you save often and, as an extra precaution, set up your project with source control -- usually as a GitHub or Gitlab repository -- and commit your changes to it as you go. It won't preserve any changes beyond what's been manually saved, but each commit can serve as a backup/restore point in case the files somehow get removed or corrupted.

Ah, I see, so I'll try to do this and will be back into making SMBX2 courses! Feels good man.