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 date.

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.