MFA Lost?

[FuzWooz]

This is so confusing. I have ALL of my MFA files from my old computer transferred to my new one. But literally, one game is missing. I save my mfas in Documents. But that one game doesn't appear there. I looked back on my old PC, it's not in the documents in there either. But I remember I saved it in Documents, I remember the exact title of the game. But it's just disappeared from my old PC. All of my mfas are always saved in Documents, but one isn't there. Therefore, I can't transfer that one game to my new PC. I have the rest of mfas, including the games I don't even remember making. But one game I do remember is just completely lost, I have no idea what happened to it. I never deleted it, moved it or interacted with it at all. I just open it from Clickteam. But it doesn't appear on Clickteam (because I had to reinstall it)
And, I'm wondering if there is any advice or something to say about this? Because I'm confused, can anyone give out any help?

[ElectraBurst]

Check your antivirus

[Alpha17x]

Like Rainbow_Girl said, take a look at your anti-virus and see if it's quarantined for some reason. Then there's the usual like taking a look in your recycling bin incase it somehow got caught with other things.

Other things to consider, you might have accidentally dragged it into a different folder while trying to click and move it. do a search on both systems or drives for "*.mfa"

You can also look in C:\Windows\Temp as some files end up in there during use. There migth be some cached replica of it there.

You could also potentially recover it from %AppData%\Local\Temp and %AppData%\LocalLow\Temp If it is in either of thsoe spots it'll be in some crazily named folder so I could suggest searching those folders for "*.mfa" again.

As a last resort try some recovery software. Piriform makes a great one called 'Recuva' it's quite effective in it's free form with more powerful features in the paid version.

It's a hindsight issue but I could recommend you save all future files and projects to a syncronized drop-box folder and set it to retain file history.

I ran into a situation somewhat like this a few years back where I lost 4 weeks of work. The way I have things set up right now. I've got various different versions of my files from different dates that I can fall back on. It's basically version control. I know it won't get your file back if it's truly gone, but it will protect you for the future.

Good luck.