# Lost My File on My Processing

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/lost-my-file-on-my-processing/7182>\
**Category:** Processing\
**Created:** [January 4, 2019, 7:54pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/lost-my-file-on-my-processing/7182 "2019-01-04T19:54:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Xaynerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/5fc32e/32.png) [@Xaynerd](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Xaynerd)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 7:54pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/lost-my-file-on-my-processing/7182/1 "2019-01-04T19:54:09Z")

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I lost all of the things I had programmed on to one of my files after an update that I never installed. I was wondering of any good way of recovering the file.

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**Author:** ![kll](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/kll/32/964_2.png) [@kll](https://discourse.processing.org/u/kll)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2019, 1:00am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/lost-my-file-on-my-processing/7182/2 "2019-01-05T01:00:05Z")

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that would be very bad,  
but actually i think you just lost the path link to your sketchbook,  
while it is still there ( with all saved projects )

so scan your harddrive for directories like processing or sketchbook  
and when you found it ( like a old one with your files // and a new one empty )  
check in Processing IDE 3.4  
/Files/ Preferences /  
/sketchbook location /  
that it point to the old location  
OR  
move the files to the new location…