# When upgrade to 5.7 to 5.8 ketalon studio all my test cases was deleted , how i can revert back it

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**Category:** Miscellaneous\
**Created:** [October 10, 2018, 3:23am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/when-upgrade-to-5-7-to-5-8-ketalon-studio-all-my-test-cases-was-deleted-how-i-can-revert-back-it/13648 "2018-10-10T03:23:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![prakasam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@prakasam](https://forum.katalon.com/u/prakasam)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2018, 3:23am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/when-upgrade-to-5-7-to-5-8-ketalon-studio-all-my-test-cases-was-deleted-how-i-can-revert-back-it/13648/1 "2018-10-10T03:23:27Z")

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Hi Team,

I am saving my project in katalon studio folder until yesterday. today morning I saw the alert message to update. so I have updated and the project was auto-saved and installed a new version. it was launched there were no files in a project … only folders appear.

my Project( Pasti) folder and subfolders only appear inside all files empty  
- test cases  
- object repository  
- test suite  
- reports

is there any solution to get back my project/files.

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[folder stored ketalon studio 1.JPG](https://s3.amazonaws.com/katalon-forum/editor/yg/iowgnp7oip8l.jpg)

[folder stored ketalon studio 2.JPG](https://s3.amazonaws.com/katalon-forum/editor/a9/y2i89tctstnn.jpg)

[folder stored ketalon studio 3.JPG](https://s3.amazonaws.com/katalon-forum/editor/73/bqoib0yp91mx.jpg)

[folder stored ketalon studio 5.JPG](https://s3.amazonaws.com/katalon-forum/editor/5p/wuwbifus0lr4.jpg)

[folder stored ketalon studio 4.JPG](https://s3.amazonaws.com/katalon-forum/editor/kg/a2vxvvtls8ns.jpg)

[folder stored ketalon studio.JPG](https://s3.amazonaws.com/katalon-forum/editor/hu/msfbl6a79w85.jpg)

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**Author:** ![Alice](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/alice/32/472_2.png) [@Alice](https://forum.katalon.com/u/Alice)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2018, 9:25am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/when-upgrade-to-5-7-to-5-8-ketalon-studio-all-my-test-cases-was-deleted-how-i-can-revert-back-it/13648/2 "2018-10-10T09:25:24Z")

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Hi prakasam,

Stored project on another folder better than that for the building project. When you upgrade build folder was changed by new version folder and your project will disappear…

Are you use git to check out project? Apply this statement to revert “git reset --hard” …

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**Author:** ![prakasam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@prakasam](https://forum.katalon.com/u/prakasam)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2018, 6:46am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/when-upgrade-to-5-7-to-5-8-ketalon-studio-all-my-test-cases-was-deleted-how-i-can-revert-back-it/13648/3 "2018-10-11T06:46:50Z")

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> [Alice](https://forum.katalon.com/profile/4836/Alice) said:
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> Hi prakasam,
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> Stored project on another folder better than that for the building project. When you upgrade build folder was changed by new version folder and your project will disappear…
> 
> Are you use git to check out project? Apply this statement to revert “git reset --hard” …

thanks for your advice. I learned yesterday for that. … I did not configure git …

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**Author:** ![Julie\_Mortlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e99b99/32.png) [@Julie\_Mortlock](https://forum.katalon.com/u/Julie_Mortlock)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/when-upgrade-to-5-7-to-5-8-ketalon-studio-all-my-test-cases-was-deleted-how-i-can-revert-back-it/13648/4 "2018-11-07T14:15:59Z")

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I had changed that I did not commit yesterday so I’ve lost all of my work? Why can’t 5.5.6 recognize the files on my user drive as a project? I can see them, it did not delete them, they are there but I keep getting an error message ‘project not found’.

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**Author:** ![Julie\_Mortlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e99b99/32.png) [@Julie\_Mortlock](https://forum.katalon.com/u/Julie_Mortlock)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 2:17pm UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/when-upgrade-to-5-7-to-5-8-ketalon-studio-all-my-test-cases-was-deleted-how-i-can-revert-back-it/13648/5 "2018-11-07T14:17:50Z")

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fyi, it will open a smaller one, just not the big one we use EVERY day! thanks!!

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**Author:** ![Julie\_Mortlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e99b99/32.png) [@Julie\_Mortlock](https://forum.katalon.com/u/Julie_Mortlock)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/when-upgrade-to-5-7-to-5-8-ketalon-studio-all-my-test-cases-was-deleted-how-i-can-revert-back-it/13648/6 "2018-11-07T16:02:12Z")

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fyi, it will open a smaller one, just not the big one we use EVERY day! thanks!!

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**Author:** ![Alexander\_Shchetinin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Alexander\_Shchetinin](https://forum.katalon.com/u/Alexander_Shchetinin)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/when-upgrade-to-5-7-to-5-8-ketalon-studio-all-my-test-cases-was-deleted-how-i-can-revert-back-it/13648/7 "2018-11-07T17:55:49Z")

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Did you use custom folder location for your project? I think I have default location for my projects under C:/Users//Katalon Studio, and then the folder is not affected by Katalon updates.  
Its also a must to backup your work frequently to prevent such situations.
