Okay so I've been going into the .minecraft folder a lot lately and I thought: "Wouldn't it be easier if I could access the .minecraft folder right from the desktop?" So I went into %appdata%/Roaming and dragged the .minecraft folder out onto my desktop. Later I come to play Minecraft and find it is installing the 1.8.9 update. Which I thought was odd since I had already long since installed the 1.8.9 update. In fact, we were already in 1.10. But I dismissed it and walked away. When I came back it was finished and I clicked play. When it loaded up I went into the server list and found that not one server was there to click on. They had all been erased! Next I went into my singleplayer and found all my worlds were gone! Along with all my texture packs. I panicked and closed out Minecraft and restarted it several times, trying with other versions too, but when I clicked a different version it would start a fresh install of that version too! As if I had never installed it to begin with! After a while, it finally dawned on me what could be the matter. I had moved my .minecraft folder out of its home and onto the desktop. That must have screwed everything up. So, naturally I went to drag it back into the appdata folder where it belonged. The thing was, there was another .minecraft folder already there since I had started up minecraft after quote on quote "Erasing" the .minecraft folder by dragging it onto the desktop. But I dragged the original .minecraft folder into appdata anyway and was asked if I wanted to replace the other .minecraft folder. I agreed and it did it. But then I noticed the .minecraft folder I had supposedly just replaced was now on my desktop! While the original .minecraft was in my appdata. Strange. So I went to delete that bad .minecraft folder on my desktop with nothing in it. Then I loaded up Minecraft and my worlds, texture packs, and servers were all back. Thank God. But I realized all my settings and controls were set back to the default. Is this just a side-effect of this whole ordeal or is something else wrong that I don't know of. Because I'm fine with manually going back and changing my controls and settings to how they were before, but if its more screwed up than I realize do I need to reset my computer to a previous date?
Any help appreciated.
Here's some pictures of my %appdata% folder with my .minecraft. Plz help.
When you copied it back there were multiple prompts (should have been) about files already existing and if they should be overwritten.
You didn't overwrite them, so the files that you copied back did not replace the default files created in the .minecraft when you ran minecraft after the desktop fiasco.
So your settings are in "options (2)" when they ought to be in "options". Similarly with your launcher profiles (if you had any), which are now in "launcher_profiles(2).json"
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Okay so I've been going into the .minecraft folder a lot lately and I thought: "Wouldn't it be easier if I could access the .minecraft folder right from the desktop?" So I went into %appdata%/Roaming and dragged the .minecraft folder out onto my desktop. Later I come to play Minecraft and find it is installing the 1.8.9 update. Which I thought was odd since I had already long since installed the 1.8.9 update. In fact, we were already in 1.10. But I dismissed it and walked away. When I came back it was finished and I clicked play. When it loaded up I went into the server list and found that not one server was there to click on. They had all been erased! Next I went into my singleplayer and found all my worlds were gone! Along with all my texture packs. I panicked and closed out Minecraft and restarted it several times, trying with other versions too, but when I clicked a different version it would start a fresh install of that version too! As if I had never installed it to begin with! After a while, it finally dawned on me what could be the matter. I had moved my .minecraft folder out of its home and onto the desktop. That must have screwed everything up. So, naturally I went to drag it back into the appdata folder where it belonged. The thing was, there was another .minecraft folder already there since I had started up minecraft after quote on quote "Erasing" the .minecraft folder by dragging it onto the desktop. But I dragged the original .minecraft folder into appdata anyway and was asked if I wanted to replace the other .minecraft folder. I agreed and it did it. But then I noticed the .minecraft folder I had supposedly just replaced was now on my desktop! While the original .minecraft was in my appdata. Strange. So I went to delete that bad .minecraft folder on my desktop with nothing in it. Then I loaded up Minecraft and my worlds, texture packs, and servers were all back. Thank God. But I realized all my settings and controls were set back to the default. Is this just a side-effect of this whole ordeal or is something else wrong that I don't know of. Because I'm fine with manually going back and changing my controls and settings to how they were before, but if its more screwed up than I realize do I need to reset my computer to a previous date?
Any help appreciated.
Here's some pictures of my %appdata% folder with my .minecraft. Plz help.
When you copied it back there were multiple prompts (should have been) about files already existing and if they should be overwritten.
You didn't overwrite them, so the files that you copied back did not replace the default files created in the .minecraft when you ran minecraft after the desktop fiasco.
So your settings are in "options (2)" when they ought to be in "options". Similarly with your launcher profiles (if you had any), which are now in "launcher_profiles(2).json"