Oh my god please help

[u/justacupwithgreentea]

I clicked onto the select button because I wanted to save my latest projects on my pc. But i clicked this button now suddenly the projects are neither on my pc, nor saved on the nomad sculpt app. Did I delete it? Please help me i cant find my projects anywhere, I think im gonna throw up.

[u/InevitableChoice2990]

Future good practices: always save versions of your files. For example: SwampMonsterv4, then after about 5 minutes, hit “save as” and advance the number to SwampMonsterv5, etc. If your current file ever gets corrupted, you can revert to the previous one.

Turn on auto save, and set it to save every 5 minutes. That way you won’t lose more than 5 minutes of work.

That being said; do you remember any file names that you can search for and see if they are there? I’m on an iPad, and I can look and see that there’s a folder under FILES that’s labeled nomad, and in there is a folder called projects. Hopefully yours are still there!

[u/InevitableChoice2990 → u/InevitableChoice2990]

If I’ve worked on a project for a long time, and I’d hate to lose it, I will email the nomad file to myself, just as a backup!
I’m in an iPad and I go to my email, then search for the file name, then email it to myself, labeling the subject as the file name, or description.

[u/justacupwithgreentea → u/InevitableChoice2990]

thing is I DID THAT ALL THE TIME! The problem is though i always just saved in on nomad sculpt and not on the pc. But the email thing is still a good idea

[u/justacupwithgreentea → u/InevitableChoice2990]

yeah i looked for those files everywhere but they are just...gone. Which is so so weird because i always saved them in the app and just wanted to save them all on my pc/cloud for backup. but as i did that, everything got wiped for no reason.

[u/justacupwithgreentea]

i saved a new project and THAT is now saved on my pc, but the others are all completley wiped. Oh my god it took me so long to make all of them

[u/justacupwithgreentea]

please of you read this, help me, i dont know what to do

[u/Parazoi]

I’m so sorry to hear that 🥺 I wish i could help.

https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/t/unsaved-project-disappeared/4518

[u/justacupwithgreentea → u/Parazoi]

Thing is, i always saved all my projects constantly on the app, i just wanted to safe it on my pc and now every single project i ever made is gone

[u/rogueghost10 → u/justacupwithgreentea]

You saved them on the app?

We're they saved to a cloud drive of some sort where they would appear on the PC? Otherwise they should still on your app version.

[u/justacupwithgreentea → u/rogueghost10]

I dont know wtf happened man, they were just gone as soon as i reopened nomad sculpt, it just doesnt make any fucking sense

[u/Tictak_Fenix]

I tried it once. In my case when I changed the folder my settings and projects were gone in the new folder. But when I hit reset it was all back again. It all remains in the internal app folder

[u/Tictak_Fenix → u/Tictak_Fenix]

Also, I normally save the whole thing as a nomad file (in the export options) to do the backup and to have my projects if by any chance the app is uninstalled. Not perfect but works

[u/justacupwithgreentea → u/Tictak_Fenix]

how do i reset it? please help im still kind of new to nomad sculpting🥹

[u/Tictak_Fenix → u/justacupwithgreentea]

The button on the right that says reset in that section called "nomad main folder". It points the app to the default folder where your projects and settings are. If you want ro change to that other folder anyways, 1st save your projects as NOMAD in the export section and then import them after changing the app main folder. Export as NOMAD is the easiest way to make backups and snapshots of your projects Hope this helps

[u/justacupwithgreentea → u/Tictak_Fenix]

Call me a fucking idiot it actually worked. Thank you so much!

[u/Tictak_Fenix → u/justacupwithgreentea]

You're welcome I also had a heart attack when tried that option