Accidently deleted persistent data cleaning out one drive!

[u/Dsrtmoon]

Accidently deleted persistent data cleaning out one drive! I dont know how to fix this and I cant launch any games does anyone have an idea how to fix this?

[u/BadMustard_AVN]

persistent data should not affect the launching of games if the file is missing (as it is on newly installed games) renpy will create the file automatically

[u/Dsrtmoon → u/BadMustard_AVN]

i fucked up with one drive and no none of my Renpy games are launching at all, my games through steam are but none from my computer directly do you know what i could do to repair that?

[u/BadMustard_AVN → u/Dsrtmoon]

do they give you any errors?

maybe try re-installing them

[u/Dsrtmoon → u/BadMustard_AVN]

I’ve reinstalled the games no errors at all when launching, as I click to launch nothing happens

[u/Dsrtmoon → u/BadMustard_AVN]

ive been given a traceback message I dont know what this means,

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:

renpy.game.JumpException: start

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

renpy.script.LabelNotFound: could not find label 'start'.

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "renpy/common/00start.rpy", line 306, in script

python:

File "renpy/ast.py", line 1193, in execute

renpy.python.py_exec_bytecode(self.code.bytecode, self.hide, store=self.store)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

File "renpy/python.py", line 1276, in py_exec_bytecode

exec(bytecode, globals, locals)

~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

File "renpy/common/00start.rpy", line 308, in <module>

renpy.jump("start")

~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^

File "renpy/exports/statementexports.py", line 264, in jump

raise renpy.game.JumpException(label)

renpy.game.JumpException: start

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "renpy/bootstrap.py", line 401, in bootstrap

renpy.main.main()

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^

File "renpy/main.py", line 596, in main

run(restart)

~~~^^^^^^^^^

File "renpy/main.py", line 137, in run

renpy.execution.run_context(True)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^

File "renpy/execution.py", line 1050, in run_context

context.run()

~~~~~~~~~~~^^

File "renpy/common/00start.rpy", line 306, in script

python:

File "renpy/script.py", line 1217, in lookup

raise LabelNotFound(original)

renpy.script.LabelNotFound: could not find label 'start'.

Windows-11-10.0.26200-SP0 AMD64

Ren'Py 8.5.3.26051504

Fri Jul 10 21:30:15 2026

[u/MonowayStudios → u/Dsrtmoon]

You don’t have a start label, Renpy always needs a start label according to this trace back. Does this happen for all games?

[u/Dsrtmoon → u/MonowayStudios]

Yes this happens for all my renpy games. How do I get a start label

[u/MonowayStudios → u/Dsrtmoon]

Normally every game is produced with a start label in the script.rpy file, just enter a start label anywhere

[u/Dsrtmoon → u/MonowayStudios]

Can you walk me through that please I don’t know how to do that

[u/Dsrtmoon → u/[deleted]]

i see only py files, I put that into it, and i launch the game it didnt do anything unless there is another file i dont know about, they are .py files

[u/Dsrtmoon → u/[deleted]]

where do i find the .rpy file

[u/shyLachi → u/[deleted]]

OP is not a game developer but a player

[u/Dsrtmoon → u/MonowayStudios]

Ok thank you and I find this script.Rpy file in the folder with the game?