I can't find my files among the Workspace files

If you cannot find the files/folder you're looking for among the Workspace files, then those files/folder were likely deleted either by you (on accident), by another instance editor or a process running in any of the applications in the instance.

Luckily, there are multiple ways that you can try to recover your data:

1. If your files are specific to a particular application, check first if the app makes regular backups. For example, JupyterLab takes regular checkpoints that might be the easiest to use and most up-to-dat.

2. You can check your snapshots if they contain the file(s). You can use distribution to restore them.

3. In a teaching course, if you received the file(s) from the lecturer (for example, assignment files), you can even look at the Distributed instance to recover a version of them, as they were sent by the lecturer. The following walkthrough demonstrates how to restore 2 folder from the Distributed instance to your own instance:

   1. First, navigate to the distributed instance of the space:

      

   2. Then, select the files you need to restore, and stage them:

      

   3. Finally, distribute them to your own instance:

      

4. If none of the above helped, reach out to support, to investigate if there are any other options to recover your data.