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I am sorry if I post this question at a wrong place.

Can you, please, help me locating the files on my laptop where all my son's created Minecraft worlds are?

I bought this game for him about two years ago and he's been playing it ever since (only in Safe Mode, single player) on our laptop (Windows 7). However, recently we've discovered that there are some viruses on our laptop and decided to de-fragment it, but we are afraid that all the worlds will be gone then.

This page:

https://help.mojang.com/customer/en/portal/articles/494713-changed-computers-account-is-gone

is teaching that we need to find our saves folders and put them on a portable device:

"Open the Minecraft launcher and log in. Choose the option "Edit Profile" in the bottom left corner"

However, I can't find the "Edit Profile" option in the bottom left corner of the launcher. Why is it so?

The help page needs some updating to the new launcher

To get at Minecraft's locally stored files on Windows, press Win+R, and in the window that appears, type %AppData%\.minecraft and click OK.

There, copy the saves folder to a external storage

When you want to restore it, go to the same directory and copy back the saves folder(you might need to run Minecraft once so it creates it)

WOW! Thank you SO MUCH!

/me tips hat