I had an old survival world I'd play on a lot a while back, and I want to transfer it to my own laptop from the computer I played it on before. It's on a desktop computer at my cousin's house which is barely functional anymore, so I'd rather it just be safe and sound on my laptop before the computer is reset, or dies completely. What's weird is I can't find the actual file for it. It should be in the saves folder, but I don't see it. I searched for it directly and still couldn't find it. I had to search it because my cousins created so many worlds they only touched once, that it would take a while to find it myself, but I didn't anyway. I thought it was just gone for some reason, but when I opened Minecraft, it was there, and I could play on it. How? Where is the file? How do I get to it? I don't think it'd have a different name... I'm confused. Most people have the opposite problem where it's in the saves but not playable. This is weird.
If you figure this out, please post. I am having the same issue. I didn't create a custom save location to it, but it just isn't in with my other saves. However, Minecraft itself will allow me to play in it. I am on a Mac and did a search on my computer but it could not find the file or folder I was looking for.
I figured it out! Okay, heres what more than likely happened. When you change the name of a world in-game playing Minecraft from the world selection screen, it changes it's name in-game and only in-game. Your actual folder still has the original name your world had when you created it. Mine for instance was like "another New World" in order to figure out which folder has your game save. First of all, copy your entire saves folder and paste it to a safe place, I chose my desktop. Then open minecraft but leave it in the small mode. Then go to single player games where it lists out all of your saved worlds. Finally, delete your world you can't find where it is being stored to (done in minecraft, don't delete any game saves from the actual folder). Then once you deleted the game in Minecraft, the game save folder that held it will also disappear from your Minecraft saves folder. Then all you have to do is figure out which folder just got deleted, copy that saved game folder from saved games on your desktop and then RENAME it to whatever your world is currently called in Minecraft. Hope I was clear in all my steps. Good luck!
Hey, that is a much simpler solution. Sorry, this was my first time posting and I didn't even see that it was literally right underneath world names lol. Good job on the simple solution. Once again, sorry about the confusing post.
World shows in game as a choice but does not show in saves folder. It may be corrupt, I read about what to do with a corrupt world but first I need to find it. I tried renaming world but that doesn't show in saves folder either. Any suggestions are appreciated.
I had an old survival world I'd play on a lot a while back, and I want to transfer it to my own laptop from the computer I played it on before. It's on a desktop computer at my cousin's house which is barely functional anymore, so I'd rather it just be safe and sound on my laptop before the computer is reset, or dies completely. What's weird is I can't find the actual file for it. It should be in the saves folder, but I don't see it. I searched for it directly and still couldn't find it. I had to search it because my cousins created so many worlds they only touched once, that it would take a while to find it myself, but I didn't anyway. I thought it was just gone for some reason, but when I opened Minecraft, it was there, and I could play on it. How? Where is the file? How do I get to it? I don't think it'd have a different name... I'm confused. Most people have the opposite problem where it's in the saves but not playable. This is weird.
If you can play it, then it is in the right place, and YOU are not.
If you figure this out, please post. I am having the same issue. I didn't create a custom save location to it, but it just isn't in with my other saves. However, Minecraft itself will allow me to play in it. I am on a Mac and did a search on my computer but it could not find the file or folder I was looking for.
I figured it out! Okay, heres what more than likely happened. When you change the name of a world in-game playing Minecraft from the world selection screen, it changes it's name in-game and only in-game. Your actual folder still has the original name your world had when you created it. Mine for instance was like "another New World" in order to figure out which folder has your game save. First of all, copy your entire saves folder and paste it to a safe place, I chose my desktop. Then open minecraft but leave it in the small mode. Then go to single player games where it lists out all of your saved worlds. Finally, delete your world you can't find where it is being stored to (done in minecraft, don't delete any game saves from the actual folder). Then once you deleted the game in Minecraft, the game save folder that held it will also disappear from your Minecraft saves folder. Then all you have to do is figure out which folder just got deleted, copy that saved game folder from saved games on your desktop and then RENAME it to whatever your world is currently called in Minecraft. Hope I was clear in all my steps. Good luck!
Oh my god you make simple things so complicated.
Hey, that is a much simpler solution. Sorry, this was my first time posting and I didn't even see that it was literally right underneath world names lol. Good job on the simple solution. Once again, sorry about the confusing post.
World shows in game as a choice but does not show in saves folder. It may be corrupt, I read about what to do with a corrupt world but first I need to find it. I tried renaming world but that doesn't show in saves folder either. Any suggestions are appreciated.
It can't show as a choice if it isn't there. Therefore you are looking in the wrong saves folder.
In the launcher Edit Profile, then click the button at the bottom to "Open Game Dir"