Levels are getting deleted! -.-

I'm new to Mario Builder and now 2 times it's been happening that my levels are getting deleted without any reason :-/ What's the cause of this? Pls help...

which levels are getting deleted? The first level in level manager, or others?

PET297 wrote:which levels are getting deleted? The first level in level manager, or others?

Well its actually only happened on the first level on the list but I have no idea why its happening and it freaks me off because I've spent so much time to work on these levels..

Do you have Mario Builder in its own folder, or just on the desktop?
It should be in its own folder, with a 'SavedFiles' folder & an 'Uploads' folder.
Also, if you exit buy pressing the 'Esc' key, you'll lose data. Always click the blue floppy disk icon in the lower right of the screen before exiting, or working on another area. If you need to exit the program, use the menu to quit & it should save automatically.

ShadowRider wrote:Do you have Mario Builder in its own folder, or just on the desktop?
It should be in its own folder, with a 'SavedFiles' folder & an 'Uploads' folder.
Also, if you exit buy pressing the 'Esc' key, you'll lose data. Always click the blue floppy disk icon in the lower right of the screen before exiting, or working on another area. If you need to exit the program, use the menu to quit & it should save automatically.

I have the Mario Builder in my desktop but also the SaveFiles folder and Upload_Files folder is in my desktop so it shouldn't matter then??

It might matter, depending on your MB version & Windows version.
Try making a folder, moving the MarioBuilder.exe, SavedFiles & Uploads folders into the new folder. (then rename the new folder)
When you're using Mario Builder, make sure you remember which Slot (1-9) you are using.
There is also the Sandbox Mode. Like a sandbox in the backyard, it's just for messing around, making & playing single Levels, not full games.
If you want to make a Game, don't use the Sandbox Mode.

Want to get to know the program really well? Make a Level called Test Area. mess around will all the different Blocks, Special Blocks, Powerups, Pipes, Doors, custom Tiles, & other features. Note that when using custom tiles, they will not be solid unless you use an Invisible Block that matches the angle of the Tiles. (for custom grounds, cave ceilings, floors/bridges that you can jump up through but not fall through, etc.) Without the Invisible blocks the custom Tiles are just decoration. It took me a while to figure that out, so I hope that helps.

ShadowRider wrote:It might matter, depending on your MB version & Windows version.
Try making a folder, moving the MarioBuilder.exe, SavedFiles & Uploads folders into the new folder. (then rename the new folder)
When you're using Mario Builder, make sure you remember which Slot (1-9) you are using.
There is also the Sandbox Mode. Like a sandbox in the backyard, it's just for messing around, making & playing single Levels, not full games.
If you want to make a Game, don't use the Sandbox Mode.

Want to get to know the program really well? Make a Level called Test Area. mess around will all the different Blocks, Special Blocks, Powerups, Pipes, Doors, custom Tiles, & other features. Note that when using custom tiles, they will not be solid unless you use an Invisible Block that matches the angle of the Tiles. (for custom grounds, cave ceilings, floors/bridges that you can jump up through but not fall through, etc.) Without the Invisible blocks the custom Tiles are just decoration. It took me a while to figure that out, so I hope that helps.

I know that about custom tiles but it's kinda alot of work to place these solid blocks on them.. Well I'm not using the Sandbox Mode at all I'm making a full game of alot of worlds and it seems to have worked fine for a while and it also have been a while since my levels got deleted without any reason until TODAY!... I've just finished working on world 4 in my Mario Builder game and I just linked all levels in their sources and I was happy to publish my game to test playing my finished world 4 which I've spent a lot of work with but when I was going to play level 1 that typical message came up and tells I have no starting location in the level and I didn't understand anything at all because the level surely had a starting location so I was going to check that out and I totally lost my mind!!! Because level 1 seemed to have been deleted without any reason I freaked out because I spended alot of work with building level 1 and now it's just deleted without any reason at all! w*f is this about? Mario Builder seems to be living on its own :O There is absolutely no reason at all why the level was deleted I just linked all levels in their sources as I always do but now level 1 just got deleted This is fucking bullshit Luckily all other levels wasn't deleted, just level 1 but that's terrible enough!! Now I have to rebuild level 1 again and I'm not happy about that...

Try Simple mode instead of Advance Mode, then later change to Advance Mode? That could work.

blurrytoad wrote:Try Simple mode instead of Advance Mode, then later change to Advance Mode? That could work.

Hmm or else I'm just making a "Dummy-area" as Area 1 and then it wont be happening with any of my REAL levels. Btw now another strange thing happened to one of my levels recently, my level 5 got removed from the list but not deleted like level 1, my level 5 was still in the game because I linked it to source 5 but it was removed from the list so now I can't edit it but it's still playable in the game :-/ Well still it doesn't matter because I don't have to edit my level 5 because it's finished and nothing has to be fixed in it so far... Anyway it's very strange it just disappear from the list but is still in the game as source 5! :O