3 Ways to Recover Lost Work in Blender

Discover 3 ways you can use the built-in tools in Blender, to recover accidental overwrites, forgetting to save or Blender crashing.

[IrreversibleExtents]

This was the most lifesaving video I have ever come across! It saved me so many hours of work!!! Thank you.

[noxuarts]

Your an amazing human being, I was so angry after all the work I did when blender crashed but now I have it all back I can't thank you enough!

[RendiMento]

What happens if I saved multiple times and overwrited a previous file? is there anyway to go back beyond #2?

[moontanimations]

Here's another random scenario I encountered as a beginner:

I opened up my file the next day after doing a final render in the previous session, but the file opened up to a blank render screen, and no workspace.
Solution: There is a tab at the top that says "back to previous", and that got me back to my workspace.
Just figured I'd share this in case another beginner is in the same boat! I know, super simple and eye-bleeding obvious for many.

[northeydesign]

When can we next expect an hour long tutorial where you end up veering off into talking about your life, I find them ridiculously entertaining and informative!

[jethrowittam]

hey, i am 15 years old and i started watching your tutorials last year when i was 14 and have grown to really love blender! 

I love the tutorials and find them easy to follow, this has helped me become quite fluent with blender and i would like to say a big THANK YOU for helping me and other people learn something.

i had work experience a couple months ago arranged from school and i went to a company and made models of some of their products, by doing this i was able to get a job over a couple weeks during the summer and earn a good amount of money, and now working from home for them when i'm not revising or doing school work. 

Thank you again and keep up the tutorials. :)

[mrunknown]

Andrew not sure if you'll see this but thank you so freaking much. In 2021 I accidentally deleted my Blender files because of them deleting in One Drive.
6 months of work down the toilet but because of you telling us about the recover auto save you helped me retrieve my life's work. Thank you. You have no ideas how happy I am to get my old files back.

[cosminv]

6 years later, this video still saves people. Thanks!

[snailtoons]

6 years since this video came out and you're still saving lives thanks man!

[rando]

You just saved my life, I, (A blender beginner) had actually just finished adding displacement modifiers to my donut project
(level 1 part 5) when blender stopped working. I cant thank you enough for how you've saved me.

[thekingofspadesk]

8 years later, and still saving lives. Thank you.

[TheShaunSwanson]

You are my favourite kind of person. I never knew these existed. I lost a few good projects before I knew about this. I recovered all of them after this video. Thanks, man!

[amr]

Man you saved my life, 9 hours of hardworking could be lost without this video ... thanks a lot !

[rhysdoesdprinting]

even 7 years later this video is such a lifesaver!

[qbl]

this 6 years old video just saved me from exploding with anger, thank you so much Andrew

[GuiJorgePorto]

Thank you for this!!! 8 years later, still helping people!

[zeliangcodetech]

Yesss, I spent hours on my project but then I lost it. But thanks to you, I got it back. Saved hours of work. Worth it

[peopleperson]

4 years later and it still works, thanks dude!

[JaredPiTrick]

you just saved a four month long project that i took on for way too little money (spec work) from going completely belly up. you literally just saved my life. I can not possibly thank you enough.

[OVerdadeiroSoneca]

You sir are a god!
Following on some of your videos, my blender crashes and I think "maybe he made a recover video", and right.
You are a genius!