Windows 10: How do I restore deleted Paint 3D projects after a crash?

A couple days ago my laptop crashed and for some reason all my Paint 3D projects the ones that show up in the Paint Start Menu and I haven't saved as images on my laptop got "deleted". This already happened once before over a year ago but I just got on and it didn't matter but now it does 'cos all my random sketches that I'm sentimental about are "gone".So I looked up where P3D saves project files %localappdata%\Packages\Microsoft.MSPaint_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\Projects and found all the projects from even before the crash over a year ago, not deleted but saved as individual folders call

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Paint 3d projects deleted

Paint 3d was not responding, so i did a reset. It said no files would be deleted, but they all were. I still have files i saved as glb files, but 2d projects are gone. A system restore did not help. Nor did a recover search for the Ms Paint app data bin
files. Are my projects gone forever?

 

An accidental paint 3D project deletion

So... not so long ago I've accidentally deleted my Paint 3D project, and been looking for ways to recover the project. I would like to know if it is even possible to recover it. I'm open to suggestions and quite desperate to get it back, if you know anyway to recover said project please type out you're suggestions/ideas I will be very greatful.

 

An accidental paint 3D project deletion

Hi Someone who is desperate,

I am Dave, I will help you with this.

If you paste this into the address bar in File Explorer, that will take you to the default save location for Paint 3D projects

%localappdata%\Packages\Microsoft.MSPaint_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\Projects

The only real option you have is to use a 3rd party recovery tool to try to restore that deleted project file to that folder.