# Code deleting randomly
**URL:** https://forum.makecode.com/t/code-deleting-randomly/35057
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [March 31, 2025, 5:00pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/code-deleting-randomly/35057 "2025-03-31T17:00:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@CodePerson](https://forum.makecode.com/u/CodePerson)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2025, 5:00pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/code-deleting-randomly/35057/1 "2025-03-31T17:00:11Z")
When I delete a certain block, a chunk of the on start section just disappears, too.
I can always undo, but it is still mildy infuriating every time this happens. š
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### Author:  [@CopySprite](https://forum.makecode.com/u/CopySprite)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2025, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/code-deleting-randomly/35057/2 "2025-03-31T17:21:55Z")
This happens to me too. I delete an unneeded block, test my code and find out that the code to create the player is gone. @richard (Sorry for pinging you) do you know anything about this?
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### Author:  [@richard](https://forum.makecode.com/u/richard)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2025, 5:23pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/code-deleting-randomly/35057/3 "2025-03-31T17:23:33Z")
i need more detail than what youāre giving me to diagnose this. any chance you can record a video of this happening? or do you have a share link to a project where this happens and steps to reproduce the issue?
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### Author:  [@CodePerson](https://forum.makecode.com/u/CodePerson)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2025, 6:18pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/code-deleting-randomly/35057/4 "2025-03-31T18:18:25Z")
@richard I have a screen recording, but I canāt upload it
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### Author:  [@CodePerson](https://forum.makecode.com/u/CodePerson)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2025, 6:18pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/code-deleting-randomly/35057/5 "2025-03-31T18:18:27Z")
I have an open On start with a lot of code in it. then, Iām toggling another thing, most probably On game update. The On start is all the way off screen. I delete something while holding Ctrl. Suddenly, the screen clips a little. When I go back, half my code on start is _poof_
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### Author:  [@naily](https://forum.makecode.com/u/naily)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2025, 6:21pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/code-deleting-randomly/35057/6 "2025-03-31T18:21:25Z")
I have the same error! I donāt know exactly how it happened, but I did take a screenshot of what it did
It deleted ALL of the variables (hover was created AFTER it happened)
as well as all of the player types.
> **[CAPATCHA](https://arcade.makecode.com/S40452-85101-49560-98716)**
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> Made with ā¤ļø in Microsoft MakeCode Arcade.
heres the link to the project (I did nothing to it as of writing this)
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### Author:  [@CodePerson](https://forum.makecode.com/u/CodePerson)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2025, 7:53pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/code-deleting-randomly/35057/7 "2025-03-31T19:53:25Z")
Hereās another demonstration of how this happens. Hope this helps.
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### Author:  [@CodeOnTheCob](https://forum.makecode.com/u/CodeOnTheCob)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2025, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/code-deleting-randomly/35057/8 "2025-04-01T17:16:39Z")
this happened to me too it also made a new variable named i and then when i reloaded everthing was normal except all of the variables i messed with got turned into variables
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### Author:  [@richard](https://forum.makecode.com/u/richard)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2025, 8:27pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/code-deleting-randomly/35057/9 "2025-04-01T20:27:25Z")
@naily next time that happens, please open up the developer tools and try to see what is in the console
to get whatās in the console
1. open the browser developer tools by either:
a. right clicking on the page somewhere (not the blockly workspace) and choosing āinspectā
b. pressing the F12 key
c. pressing āctrl + shift + iā on windows
2. switch to the console tab in the view that appears
3. send me a screenshot of everything in there
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### Author:  [@richard](https://forum.makecode.com/u/richard)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2025, 1:16am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/code-deleting-randomly/35057/10 "2025-04-02T01:16:45Z")
i wrote up some more detailed instructions on how to copy the browser console and other things to do when reporting a bug:
> [@What to do when you encounter a bug](https://forum.makecode.com/t/what-to-do-when-you-encounter-a-bug/35120):
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> Hey folks! We here at the MakeCode team try our best to fix any bugs that forum users run into in a timely manner. However, it can sometimes be difficult for us to diagnose or fix these bugs when we canāt recreate the bug ourselves. Thatās why we need YOUR help when you encounter bugs to get the most information about the problem as possible. The purpose of this post is to lay out a few things you can do when posting about bugs to make it easier for us to figure out the root cause and fix 'em! ā¦
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### Author:  [@KensingtonianNinja](https://forum.makecode.com/u/KensingtonianNinja)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2025, 5:08pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/code-deleting-randomly/35057/11 "2025-04-02T17:08:45Z")
something that happened to me was I just added a new colour palette and committed on github only to find everything was gone. Got it back but it scared me.
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### Author:  [@naily](https://forum.makecode.com/u/naily)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2025, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/code-deleting-randomly/35057/12 "2025-04-04T18:42:41Z")
It happened again!
Removed the formatting I had for a text sprite.
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### Author:  [@richard](https://forum.makecode.com/u/richard)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2025, 10:29pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/code-deleting-randomly/35057/13 "2025-04-04T22:29:12Z")
thanks @naily! I was able to quickly figure out the problem thanks to your logs:
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> this was an issue reported on the forum \[here\](https://forum.makecode.com/t/codeā¦-deleting-randomly/35057/12?u=richard)
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> looks like i mixed up the arguments of setFieldValue. I checked out every other place we call setFieldValue and looks like this was the only one with this issue.
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### Author:  [@Luke](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Luke)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2025, 11:18pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/code-deleting-randomly/35057/14 "2025-04-04T23:18:08Z")
iāve also had this problem
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### Author:  [@CodePerson](https://forum.makecode.com/u/CodePerson)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2025, 4:20am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/code-deleting-randomly/35057/15 "2025-04-15T04:20:40Z")
because of some chromebook thing, I canāt access the console log, but I can describe what keeps happening. Itās like @nailyās bug but it also affects spritekinds. The most annoying thing is that this happens like every 10 minutes. š if this keeps happening, it will effectively make me destroy me computer, quit Makecode, and never finish my game jam game.
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### Author:  [@CodePerson](https://forum.makecode.com/u/CodePerson)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2025, 4:20am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/code-deleting-randomly/35057/16 "2025-04-15T04:20:46Z")
I am not going to lie this happened again 30 seconds after me writing this post.
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### Author:  [@CodePerson](https://forum.makecode.com/u/CodePerson)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2025, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/code-deleting-randomly/35057/17 "2025-08-05T18:23:30Z")
this seems to happen to only some projects randomly, and it happens to most when you have custom spritekinds. Itās where every one of your variables disappear and your custom spritekinds also disappear. This used to happen constantly and seems to be happening for my coder king 5 project.
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### Author:  [@BotWarrior](https://forum.makecode.com/u/BotWarrior)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2025, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/code-deleting-randomly/35057/18 "2025-08-06T17:20:46Z")
I keep getting the sprite kind deletion bug, as well as tile deletion bug, both being incredibly frustrating. Just for reference, the tile deletion bug just makes every set tile to () block go blank. I also had a really weird one this morning when it changed some to the blank blocks, and some to these white half blocks? As in, triangle white slopes that I didnāt have in the assets.
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### Author:  [@richard](https://forum.makecode.com/u/richard)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2025, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/code-deleting-randomly/35057/19 "2025-10-24T17:46:06Z")
i can now happily report that the SpriteKind and Variable disappearing bug has finally been fixed! the bug fix was released moments ago and the new version of arcade is 2.0.61 (you can check what version by clicking āAboutā in the gearwheel menu). it might take a second for your computer to download the update but it should be automatically refreshed when you go to the website.
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### Author:  [@Bilangus](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Bilangus)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/code-deleting-randomly/35057/20 "2025-10-25T17:59:41Z")
Yeah! No more will all my variables be replaced with a random āiā variable for some reason seriously that something straight out of an arg
Anyways wonder what specifically caused the issue.
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