All progression with the app had been saved, some changes were made last night and saved. I expected to pick up where I left off, there was a ‘failure to save’ message and there is no record of the app in ‘Your Apps’ - effectively gone from Studio. I still have the files on my local network and gitlab… but as a ‘non coder’, AI Studio was a great bridge allowing me to prototype, save code to gitlab and publish to Vercel.
Will Google investigate and restore my saved app? Or is there another way to restore it from my locally saved files?
I like using the tool and it is the best way for a novice like me build an app.
Thanks all, DaveO
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Exact same problem here since this morning (I just added the same post). If you find the solution, please keep me updated and good luck !
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Edit: what I did so far since I need to be able to edit / work on the app immediatly is that I downloaded the zip file from Google Cloud Run, created an new “empty” app on Google AI studio and manually imported the files and folders from the zip file into the code editor from AI studio in order to reproduce what I had until this morning. Not sure it’s gonna work perfectly, but I guess that’s the best we can do so far before getting any other solution from the support team.
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brilliant! i replicated your action. all built back. thank you for saving the day!
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At least you had it deployed to Cloud Run by then, my apps have disappeared too, but were only saved in Google Drive. Now I have a shell of a blank index.html and simply the name, the app, the history, basically everything from and about the app(s) are gone from what it appears.
I guess I’m going to now start pushing to github right out of the gate, downloading zips, and adding 15 mins or work for every iteration I go through until this is resolved if it resolved.
Sorry to hear that. Yeah, this is probably the best solution. I really hope the support team will give some more info about it and solve the problem quickly, cause I would have lost everything too if it was not deployed on Cloud Run.
exactly how i do it. AI Studio to prototype and build. update local files then push to gitlab. i’m using vercel for live front end. works well.
I hope you get it back… 
They are working on it, but while they are doing what they are doing, I started to poke around a bit. This could go on, but the gist was, in Google Drive there was a blank file with the name of the build, in digging, looked at the version history, and of the version history of that file, i went back to the point I knew it was mostly working, downloaded that version changed it a zip file, uncompressed it, then uploaded those files back to a blank AI Studio project, and voila, the app was restored (granted picking just the right one to restore, and such will be some work)
But the good news is that there is a way to get the app(s) back, lessons learned, and the teams are working hard at fixing this more broadly as I’m not the only one impacted obviously, but for anyone that is looking for a solution while they wait, or have stuff that can’t be rebuilt easily, this [Drive - AI Studio Folder - Project Name - Version History - Restore Version - Download - Uncompress - Upload to AI Studio Blank Project ] works pretty darn well.