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Okay, so I have been playing with minecraft a little bit, trying to change the sounds. Everything was fine, up until today: The legacy folder was gone. Virtual is empty.. except my game still runs perfectly fine. In fact, I had opened my game prior to this discovery to test out a custom resource pack where I had change the sound. I exited the game, and oppened the .minecraft folder through run (I have windows 8) and did everything as normal. Where is the folder and everything inside it? Is it recommended to re download minecraft?

The asset folder was reorganized several versions ago. Everything needed by minecraft is under assets objects.

I had been reading that while doing research here before posting. But heres what baffles me: I just recently downloaded Minecraft, in December actually. I had been able to view all the files through the directory I mentioned, up until today. Last night, it was there. Also, I had a Windows update, could that have messed with files? I suppose since its not harming game play I could live without finding this folder, however; I am alarmed to see when I search that the legacy.json appears, but I can't seem to find it manually.

The launcher stages assets when necessary when you run legacy versions of minecraft, then it cleans them up.

legacy.json is at .minecraft/assets/indexes/legacy.json It is these index files that identify all the assets, mapping their "name" to a hash code and therefore to a file under assets/objects

Okay, I see whats happened I think. Thank you for helping me out