I’ve been developing a website since months on Google AI studio. I work on the code in “build” and then “Your apps”, where I can access the code editor and the preview. This morning I woke up and my apps disappeared, I now get the following message: “No apps created yet. Build your first app now.” instead of the listing for my apps and it looks like I cannot access or edit it anymore. I still have access to the zip file so far on Google Cloud, but that’s all and I would need help to get it back as soon as possible. Thank you for your help
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I am in the same situation. Sounds like you had it saved but disappeared too. i am wondering if it is a service issue and will be restored… 
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What I know is that AI Studio stores any apps you create in your Google Drive folders. If those got cleaned, then apps disappear also.
AI Studio has the option to save your apps to GitHub in a repository. If you use this then you always have a safe copy of your code. Also, download your apps as a ZIP file, as you can always upload it back to AI Studio through the prompt.
If you rely on AI Studio to save them for you then there’s the risk of losing them…
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I have just noticed my apps (builds) have disappeared too. I constantly saved them as well. Worked for days on these. While the name of the app shows, and yes also shows in Google Drive as one other user pointed out, they are absent of all the work, one is an app that isn’t even my app, it’s as if it built a vibe of the app based of what the app as in the name.
There definitely has something changed, and change is fine, love it, keep shipping, but these apps were both really quite a bit of work to get ready to Cloud Deploy.
I hope someone from the Gemini team chimes in here, this is alarming to say the least.
True, but I relied on the Drive storage as you suggested, and it’s very inefficient to also then connect to GitHub (hope the changes are pushed or synced), and also keep checking on the Drive side (through Google Drive) and ensure backups are there as well. Good practices, I agree, but when apps and all the code vanish, even with active Google drive saving. That’s a problem. Lesson learned I guess, but this really should be elevated.
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Well, it depends on if your Google Drive is also connected to synchronize with your computer or other device. This synchronization can go wrong, as it happened several times to me that Google removed things from Drive that I did not have on my computer, as it thought I had deleted it. It’s a great service, but it can fail.
If you synchronize to your device or have Google Drive as a separate disk on your computer, then any cleanup tool on your computer might also decide to delete stuff from Drive.
I generally deploy any apps I develop to my own server, so my server always has a working version. I also use GitHub to synchronize my apps regularly. I’m less worried about Drive, as I barely use Drive myself. (I have a NAS with 32 TB of storage in RAID-1, so that’s great for backups.)
I learned four decades ago never to trust storage as my first PC had a hard disk of 20 MB (1984) that decided to crash a month before the warranty would expire. The warranty made sure my disk got replaced by a new one, but all data on that disk was gone. Ever since, I’ve made sure to have backups of anything considered important. It’s a hard lesson to learn, though…
Thank you, and noted. This isn’t the case for my scenario, and you’ll find in the forum, and through other forums or platforms of conversation, over the past few days or more this has happened to others. Other Gemini powered Google products have also been impacted across the board of GCP and Vertex, so perhaps a very interesting coincidence, or there has been a more widespread issue, “apps” in Ai Studio disappearing, is just one of the challenges. I only raise the issue or echo the issue that others have also had, so that the Google AI Studio team or Gemini team(s) can have more information that there is an issue. For projects that are mission critical, production, I do not put blind trust in a (single) free tool such as the AI Studio. Sounds like you have a good set of redundancies and independent infra for your solutions, and experience to match. Hope you have a full off site clone of your backup strategy too.
Can you check what you see in the “AI Studio” folder of your Google Drive? There should be a file with the name of you AI Studio App.
Speaking for myself, my AI Studio folder in my Drive is only showing the things I (re)created with AI studio since my apps disappeared. My previous apps and work seem to have been deleted.
EDIT: I found the solution !
- The apps you see in the Google AI studio are related to the “Google AI studio” folder in your Google Drive
- For whatever reason the previous Google AI studio folder has been deleted and placed in trash, making the apps disappear from Google AI Studio
- You then need to go to trash and restore it, and it should make your apps re-appear in Google AI Studio !
I just want you to understand that I’m facing similar problems only with Gemini when I built my custom GEM’s they had all of their tools now they don’t have any. I have a send button and an upload attachment button. The two buttons that I need most importantly have disappeared from all of my custom models. What do I do now?