Minecraft is a popular game that many people enjoy playing. If you have ever played the game, you may have saved your progress in the game to a folder on your computer. If you have not played the game, or if you have forgotten how to find your saved games folder, this article will help you. To find your Minecraft saved games folder, open up the game and click on the “Saved Games” button in the bottom left corner of the screen. This will open up a file browser where you can see all of your saved games. To find a specific saved game, open up the file browser and type in the name of the game (for example, “My First Minecraft Game”). Once you have found the desired saved game, double-click on it to open it up. If you want to delete a specific saved game from your computer, open up the file browser and type in the name of the game (for example, “My First Minecraft Game”). Once you have found the desired saved game, right-click on it and select “Delete.” ..
We were setting up a new Minecraft server at HTG headquarters to play the awesome Captive Minecraft survival mode game (which uses vanilla Minecraft, no mods required), when we realized we didn’t have an article about how to find your saved games folder.
There are tons of Minecraft worlds on the Internet that you can download, unzip, and then play on your local computer without having to join a server or set one up, but to do that, you’ll need to know how to get to your saved games, and Minecraft doesn’t put those worlds into a place you’d expect, like your Documents folder.
We do have an article about how to backup, sync, and store your Minecraft saves in Dropbox, so if you want to do that, make sure to read the article.
Finding Your Minecraft Saved Games on Windows
Your saved games are stored inside of the AppData folder, which isn’t that easily to find or get to because the whole AppData folder is hidden. Which makes it more confusing why they decided to put all the saved games there.
Luckily there’s an easy way to get to the Minecraft saved games folder. Just copy and paste this into the Search or Run box:
And hit the Enter key, of course.
Once you are there, you can browse down into the saves folder and copy, move, or do whatever you need to do.
That’s all there is to it.
Finding Your Minecraft Saved Games on Mac OS X
On OS X, your saved games folder is located inside of the Library/Application Support directory inside of your user folder, but of course these folders aren’t easy to find the normal way.
The easy way to get there is to just paste this into the Spotlight search window and hit the enter key.
From there you can browse into the saves folder, and you’ll see all of them there.
Finding Your Minecraft Saved Games on Linux
We don’t have screenshots for Linux, but it’s all stored inside of the .minecraft directory inside of your user folder. The problem is that any directory that starts with a period is hidden in Linux.
You can also get there by using the ~ shortcut which represents your user folder directory.
Loading Saved Games
Once you click to Single Player mode, you’ll see the list of saved games. If you exit this screen and then click back in, you’ll immediately see the new saved game that you unzipped or otherwise copied into this folder.
