I lost all my maps!

[HydraRancher]

When I re-installed warcraft I thought I back-upped my maps but I didnt, anyway to recover them?

 

[Andrewgosu]

Not really.

If they're gone, they're gone.

Nothing we can do.

 

[Tythoid]

If you have hosted any of your games on Bnet they should be on http://mapgnome.org/browse/sort-hosted/east/1 its a great database of every map played on Bnet since the websites launch im guessing you wont have hosted all your maps as everyone has a archive of unfinished unhosted maps but you never know

 

[Samael88]

you could try a recovory program if all else fails

Here is a link to a somewhat good one, that is also free
http://www.undeleteunerase.com/

 

[Marshmalo]

This happened to me too, my computer had to have windows reinstalled and only saved things in my documents folders, uninstalling wc shouldnt remove any of your costum maps tho? I've uninstalled it before and its never done that to me?

 

[HydraRancher]

Well its kind of confusing
1.I installed WC3
2.I Re-formatted
3.I began to patch
4.It errored, because I am missing something in my Local Disk Drive that was erased when I re-formatted.
5.I deleted WC3, thinking I backupped my maps (there was no un-install)
6.I installed. Maps are gone

Thanks Samael! +rep
to typhoid as well

EDIT:THe programs confusing I did search, do I wait untill I see all the map files, then restore them?

 

[HydraRancher]

bump

 

[Bloodcount]

Happened to me too.... lost a very valuable WIP map. *tears* Well.... are you sure you don't have a backup of the map somewhere?

 

[HydraRancher]

I dont have backups for all my maps

 

[Varine]

Did you delete it in full or send it to the recycle bin?

 

[HydraRancher]

delete in full