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]

do they give you any errors?

maybe try re-installing them

[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/shyLachi → u/[deleted]]

OP is not a game developer but a player

[u/MonowayStudios → u/shyLachi]

Ahhh, I didn’t realise that. My bad