Accidentally deleted a workspace; managed to recover it, now it's corrupted

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Accidentally deleted a workspace; managed to recover it, now it's corrupted

I accidentally deleted my workspace; went to look for it in the recycling bin, it was empty. I looked online, and found out that to recover stuff that got "past" the recycling bin I could use a software named ShadowExplorer. I installed it, found the folder, extracted it back to the original place, perfect. Then I opened MCreator (2025.1), clicked on the "open workspace" button, selected the correct file, and it told me the workspace was corrupted. It offered me a series of backups; none of them worked, it told me the same thing. What can I do (except from remaking the mod from scratch)?

When using those recovery…
Sun, 06/22/2025 - 20:09

When using those recovery tools, not all fiels are restored and sometimes restores are partial, which will result in broken files.

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So I suppose I have no other…
Sun, 06/22/2025 - 20:27

So I suppose I have no other choice than remaking everything from scratch? Thank god it wasn't too big and I have it already exported as a .jar