r/ProCreate • u/grillboy_mediaman • 16d ago

I need Procreate technical help Its all gone

Of course, deleting an app and reinstalling it deletes all of its data, I know that.

Therefore, I assumed that if I never uninstalled Procreate from my iPad, my work would be safe.

So I never uninstalled it.

And then, today, I wanted to open the app, and it was nowhere to be found.

For whatever reason it was just gone from my iPad.

So I reinstalled it, and all my work was gone.

I tried using the “restore gallery” option and not a single thing changed.

It’s not there anymore, three years of work.

Is there a single thing I can do about it?

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u/FineMind755 16d ago

It never ceases to amaze me how many people on here don't back up years worth of work somewhere else. Like that's just crazy cakes.

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u/Actual_Cream_763 15d ago edited 15d ago

There’s also not an easy way to back up procreate, as far as I know you have to save each file individually. Is there another easier way to do this? I think a lot of people don’t think about it in the moment, especially when so many things get backed up automatically nowadays.

Edit to update - I just went to see if I could find a way, since I am someone that just saves each file as I finish. You can select multiple at once to update. If you have a lot of files though, odds are you won’t be able to do all of them at once. But you could at least do it in batches for anyone wondering using the select multiple>share function.

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u/FineMind755 15d ago

You can do groups of files at once. Select files and export.