# Project lost after updating to 7.0.4

**URL:** <https://forum.katalon.com/t/project-lost-after-updating-to-7-0-4/35389>\
**Category:** Web Testing\
**Tags:** katalon-studio\
**Created:** [October 28, 2019, 11:45am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/project-lost-after-updating-to-7-0-4/35389 "2019-10-28T11:45:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![mdu\_kay7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@mdu\_kay7](https://forum.katalon.com/u/mdu_kay7)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2019, 11:45am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/project-lost-after-updating-to-7-0-4/35389/1 "2019-10-28T11:45:27Z")

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So today I updated using the check updates builtin feature and after a successfully update all my files were deleted (lost my whole project 2.5 month worth of work). The funny thing is that all the folders I created are still there with no file. So the whole project structure is maintained but work is lost. Anyone knows how I can recover my files? ☹

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**Author:** ![Timo\_Kuisma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@Timo\_Kuisma](https://forum.katalon.com/u/Timo_Kuisma)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2019, 4:09pm UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/project-lost-after-updating-to-7-0-4/35389/2 "2019-10-28T16:09:07Z")

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hello,

do you know what is git or github, there all your files are in save and github is free  
don’t know how to recover lost files, sorry

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**Author:** ![katalonuser1](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/katalonuser1/32/16104_2.png) [@katalonuser1](https://forum.katalon.com/u/katalonuser1)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 2:37am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/project-lost-after-updating-to-7-0-4/35389/3 "2019-11-27T02:37:48Z")

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Wish I had read your post before I updated. I’ve just lost all my files from the update too. I have no idea how to recover them.

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**Author:** ![mdu\_kay7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@mdu\_kay7](https://forum.katalon.com/u/mdu_kay7)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 10:33am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/project-lost-after-updating-to-7-0-4/35389/4 "2019-11-27T10:33:02Z")

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I managed to get some of my work back after the IT Technical team ran some recovery software on my hdd. Although some script files can back corrupt but at least I did not start from scratch. My advice is try running some file recovery software. All the best

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**Author:** ![Ibus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e9a140/32.png) [@Ibus](https://forum.katalon.com/u/Ibus)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 11:50am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/project-lost-after-updating-to-7-0-4/35389/5 "2019-11-27T11:50:00Z")

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my advice is, don’t store your projects inside katalon instalation folder.  
and yeah … use certain VCS tool