In this video I’m showing you a method to recover a deleted DaVinci Resolve project—especially if your disk got formatted or the drive is corrupted. I’m being straight with you: I can’t guarantee the success rate. This isn’t a step-by-step “click here, click there” tutorial either. It’s more like an overview of the logic so you can try it with whatever recovery tool you trust. The core idea is: DaVinci projects live as a database file, and what you’re trying to recover is a .db file (usually named project.db). Use a recovery software that can actually recover .db files, and ideally you should know the original location because it speeds up the search. One big tip: don’t keep running ten different recovery tools back-to-back—every attempt can reduce your chances, so pick the one you think will work best first. After recovery, I verify if the file is even usable by opening project.db in Notepad—if it’s blank, it’s basically not a working file. If it shows text/data, I create a new database in Resolve, make a new project, close Resolve, then manually create folders in the database path and place one project.db per folder. When you reopen Resolve, the projects show up with the folder names you set.