Put the summary of the bug you're having here:
I created a temporary new world to give the end world a try, defeated the boss and decided to go back my normal sp save world. Before I did this I deleted the 'temporary world' that i created, but it wouldn't delete.
So closed and opened MC and tried again, clicked on the temporary world and clicked delete, however, it deleted my other world, the one which I have spent hundreds, if not thousands of hours playing on.
What I expected to happen was...:
Describe what you thought should happen here:
The 'temporary world' I clicked on should've deleted, not the other world I had already there.
What actually happened was...:
Describe what happened here:
The other world, which was my main world in single-player in creative mode, deleted. After several attempts of re-opening and re-closing MC the temporary world eventually deleted.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a world: world name 'New World', game mode-creative, difficulty- normal, generate structures- on, world type- default, allow cheats- on, bonus chest- off.
2. Open new world and wait for it to load completely, immediately go into inventory and use 'Eye of Ender', use this to find the nearest stronghold.
3. Once you have dug down to the portal, (I personally explored stronghold for about 10 minutes before going through portal), and place Eye of Ender on each 'End Portal' block, go into portal.
4. Equip yourself with diamond sword and bow and arrow.
5. Destroy all the Ender Crystals on each Obsidian Pillar.
6. Defeat the dragon with both bow and arrow and diamond sword (This took some time but it was worth the fight!) During the fight I used potion of poison with the bow, don't even know if it worked but tried it out.
7. Once the dragon is defeated go through the portal, watch the credits and wait till you are back in the world.
8. Exit the game but not minecraft. Click on the world you were playing in and click delete. *It might be an idea to have another world already created as this is it deleted this one instead of the 'temporary world.'
9. Watch the world you spent hundreds of hours on disappear, and the one you created to be temporary stay there, which refused to be deleted after several attempts of deleting it...
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I've just tried the first suggestion but couldn't find it in my saves folder. Unfortunately I didn't create a backup of the world (pretty stupid of me) so don't know what else I can do as I can't find the world in any of the folders in the Minecraft folder 😞
Is this still a concern on Minecraft 1.4.4 Pre-Release? If so, please update the affected versions.
Duplicate of MC-526.
Your old world may still be there, because Minecraft actually doesn't appear to delete worlds completely. Go to your Minecraft saves folder and see if your old world folder is still there. Make a backup of it. Go back into Minecraft and create a new world, with the exact same name (and seed, if you remember) as your old one. You may spawn in a completely different location, but should find most (if not all) of your old world still there.
If that didn't work, try to copy the contents of your backup back to the newly created world and see if that brings back anything of your old world.
I hope that helps at least. And for the future, always make regular backups of your worlds, just in case the game glitches out.
For some reason, probably Minecraft didn't update its list of worlds when you deleted the temporary one, so when you tried that again, it deleted your regular world, is my guess.