I can't find my files among the Workspace files

If you cannot find the file or folder you are looking for among the Workspace files, it was likely deleted either accidentally by you, by another instance editor, or by a process running in one of the applications in the instance.

There are several ways you can attempt to recover the missing data:

1. If the missing files are specific to a particular application, first check whether that application creates regular backups. For example, JupyterLab creates regular checkpoints, which may be the easiest and most up-to-date recovery option.

2. Check whether one of your snapshots contains the missing files. If it does, you can use distribution to restore them.

3. In a teaching course, if you originally received the files from the lecturer, for example as assignment files, you may also be able to recover them from the Distributed instance, where they remain available in the form in which they were distributed.

   1. First, navigate to the Distributed instance of the space using the navigation bar at the top of the page.

      
   2. Then select the files you want to copy into your own instance and stage them.

   3. Finally, distribute them to your own instance.

      
4. If none of the above steps resolve the issue, contact support to determine whether any additional recovery options are available.