Minecraft Bedrock worlds gone after trying to access AppData on external drive

You can use the Minecraft Realms standard or try the steps below first when transferring worlds.

In Minecraft (Bedrock Version), select the Sync Old Worlds button at the bottom of the worlds list in the Play menu. This finds any worlds on the device from the Minecraft: PS4 Edition and displays them below the button.

Select any of the worlds that are displayed to convert it to the Bedrock edition.

After conversion, the world will show up above the Sync Old Worlds button, along with the rest of your Bedrock worlds.

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There is no way to convert the files to a .mcworld, the only way to create a .mcworld is exporting the world inside Minecraft.

One thing that you can do is: (but this doesn't guarantee that you're going to restore the worlds)

If inside the windows.old folder you're able to access to the appdata/..../inside the Minecraft bedrock worlds folder > you should be able to see more folders with random letters and numbers name. (Those are the worlds)
Try copying all those folders to the same path and open the game and verify

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To sync a Minecraft Bedrock Edition world from a PC to an Android phone, you can follow these steps:

On your PC, go to the "Saved Worlds" folder for Minecraft Bedrock Edition. This folder is usually located at "C:\Users[Yourusername]\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MinecraftUWP_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\games\com.mojang\minecraftWorlds".

Find the world you want to sync in the "Saved Worlds" folder and copy it to a location on your PC that is easy to access, such as the desktop.

Connect your Android phone to your PC using a USB cable.

On your Android phone, open the "Files" app.

In the "Files" app, navigate to the folder where you want to save the world on your Android phone.

On your PC, drag the world folder from its current location and drop it into the folder on your Android phone.

Once the transfer is complete, disconnect your Android phone from your PC.

On your Android phone, open Minecraft Bedrock Edition and select the world you just transferred from the "Saved Worlds" menu.

I hope these steps help you sync your Minecraft Bedrock Edition world from your PC to your Android phone.

Hello AaravSingh1,

Thanks for reaching out to us, I can provide you some details on what you're looking for. The Minecraft worlds are located within the drive itself. As recommended below, if you're looking to get that world off of the old Dell Laptop, then you'd want to
remove the drive and see if you can obtain a case to turn that drive to an external drive in order for you to recover the files. Once that's been completed, there will be a few steps needed to locate and recover the world.

Go to your start menu and search run. Alternatively you can press the Windows button + R.

Type "%appdata%" then press OK.

Go into your .minecraft folder, then your saves folder, then (if you remember the name of your deleted world) copy paste the world folder into the same saves folder.

Go back into Minecraft and play your recovered Minecraft world.

Hope this information helps, Happy Gaming!

Hi, thanks your response, however the world was on the Bedrock Edition of Minecraft, as that is the only version installed on my Xbox and I have no external storage devices.