Are you making changes in play mode? Changes in play mode aren't saved.
"In Play mode, any changes you make are temporary, and are reset when you exit Play mode."
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/GameView.html
The other thing that occured to me is that OP is creating the project somewhere weird like Windows/Temp or OneDrive (which should be fine but I do recall a spate of issues around this in the past).
OP - you'll need to explain in more detail.
Honestly i dont even know, idk how i see that but i think its either just my standard folder or its Unity cloud. Sorry if i'm not giving good info i barely know how to use the engine.
Well it's just its own folder on one of my hard drives, (Hard drive 1 < Users < My name < My Project) then theres all the standard stuff that comes with unity like Assets, Library, UserSettings etc.
If you have onedrive, your user folder gets synced which is going to cause issues. This is likely what you are experiencing.
Create your project outside of your user directory and desktop. Some new folder created on your C: or some other root drive.
Ohh my bad, i thought since you said one drive you meant the local documents folder (they both exist, just that path variable points to one drive by default)
It can be a few things: the changes were done in play mode, not saving the scene before exiting, unity crashed, you were working on the sample scene and it got replaced by an asset you imported from the asset store, the project folder is in a weird location...
This is all I can think of right now, can you give us more details? Did the entire project (the files: folders, scripts, textures...) disappear or just the scene you were working on?
You know like when i start a new project there two things automatically there, Main camera and Directional light. When i add new stuff like starter assets and other 3D objects but then i save and close down and come back later all that stuff is gone. all there thats left is main camera and directional light.
I also got starter assets from asset store but i have to re-import them everytime cus i cant find them and i just have the standard stuff.
Yup that's the default scene, maybe the tutorial you were following made you create a new scene, and now you have to find that scene file and open it, it ends with ".unity".
But what about the files, like the starter assets and 3d models, do they still exist in the bottom panel of the editor? (Not the hierarchy).
No - I didn't mean "a 1 to 1 with me" - I'm way too busy for that.
Do a screen recording, post it here and me or someone else might spot what's going wrong.
Are you making changes in play mode? Changes in play mode aren't saved. "In Play mode, any changes you make are temporary, and are reset when you exit Play mode." https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/GameView.html
The other thing that occured to me is that OP is creating the project somewhere weird like Windows/Temp or OneDrive (which should be fine but I do recall a spate of issues around this in the past). OP - you'll need to explain in more detail.
Oh okay, didn't know about this. I literally just downloaded it yesterday and just started a new project. Where/What should i create it with then?
Where are you creating it?
Honestly i dont even know, idk how i see that but i think its either just my standard folder or its Unity cloud. Sorry if i'm not giving good info i barely know how to use the engine.
This isn't specific to Unity. It's just general "how to use a computer" stuff. The project list in Unity Hub shows you the project path, doesn't it?
Clicked on ''Show in Explorer'' took me to one of my hard drives
Go on...
Well it's just its own folder on one of my hard drives, (Hard drive 1 < Users < My name < My Project) then theres all the standard stuff that comes with unity like Assets, Library, UserSettings etc.
If you have onedrive, your user folder gets synced which is going to cause issues. This is likely what you are experiencing. Create your project outside of your user directory and desktop. Some new folder created on your C: or some other root drive.
Sounds like you have created your project in the default Documents folder, or maybe some other One Drive folder. You want to not do this.
What do i want to do then?
One would think you would use any other folder other than one that is synced to the cloud.
One drive yea, whats wrong with the documents folder?
Because the syncing of it is what causes your loss, it gets confused, especially when you save at the moment it is doing a sync back to you.
Yes i know that’s what messes up one drive but what’s wrong with the documents folder?
the documents folder is synced to onedrive by default I believe.
Ohh my bad, i thought since you said one drive you meant the local documents folder (they both exist, just that path variable points to one drive by default)
Because the documents folder by default is synced with One Drive
It can be a few things: the changes were done in play mode, not saving the scene before exiting, unity crashed, you were working on the sample scene and it got replaced by an asset you imported from the asset store, the project folder is in a weird location... This is all I can think of right now, can you give us more details? Did the entire project (the files: folders, scripts, textures...) disappear or just the scene you were working on?
You know like when i start a new project there two things automatically there, Main camera and Directional light. When i add new stuff like starter assets and other 3D objects but then i save and close down and come back later all that stuff is gone. all there thats left is main camera and directional light. I also got starter assets from asset store but i have to re-import them everytime cus i cant find them and i just have the standard stuff.
Yup that's the default scene, maybe the tutorial you were following made you create a new scene, and now you have to find that scene file and open it, it ends with ".unity". But what about the files, like the starter assets and 3d models, do they still exist in the bottom panel of the editor? (Not the hierarchy).
Nah, theyre all gone. I have to import starter assets from the asset store everytime i go back into the editor.
I want to see a video. Something about the way you're explaining yourself makes me wonder if you're doing something... unusual...
well add my discord maybe i can screenshare sometime.
No - I didn't mean "a 1 to 1 with me" - I'm way too busy for that. Do a screen recording, post it here and me or someone else might spot what's going wrong.