Resolve 17 Database location and project restoration

I was working on a project in Resolve 17.0, I save the project and quit. When I restarted resolve after 5 mins, all my previous projects were gone. The database was empty. How can I restore my projects now?

[Peter Chamberlain]

The FAQs describe where the project database is stored by default, assuming you didn’t place it elsewhere

The FAQs describe where the project database is stored by default, assuming you didn’t place it elsewhere

Thanks for the quick reply. I am using Windows 10. FAQs say it should be in

Windows: C:\Users\<your user name>\AppData\Local\Roaming\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Resolve Disk Database

but I can't find any roaming folder in Local. Instead, it is in C:\Users\username \AppData\Roaming\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Support.
Now I do I restore all my projects?

My database is located here if that is any help. No "roaming" in there.

Charles, that location was the original one for the default database, for much earlier versions. New installations go to roaming.

To the OP: so you found it. You might want to open it up, proceed to the "Project" folder and see if any sub-folders, with the project name you lost, are inside.

It sounds like a lost cause, since you report that nothing is showing up in the Project manager. But you can at least find out whether there's anything there.

Charles, that location was the original one for the default database, for much earlier versions. New installations go to roaming.

To the OP: so you found it. You might want to open it up, proceed to the "Project" folder and see if any sub-folders, with the project name you lost, are inside.

It sounds like a lost cause, since you report that nothing is showing up in the Project manager. But you can at least find out whether there's anything there.

I have found all old projects in this location

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C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Support\Resolve Disk Database\Projects

while the last project I was working on was saved here

C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Support\Resolve Disk Database\Resolve Projects\Users\Projects

The question is how do I restore projects in Project manager?

Solution found

1. Create a new project with custom name (in my case it was "Aquarium restore"
2. Search for new project name in C:/users
3. copy all the old project folders into the same as the new project.
4. restart resolve.
5. Viola!! all projects are restored.

Thanks to everybody who contributed to help with this.