# Don't delete your Tab Navigator
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/dont-delete-your-tab-navigator/156071
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [July 25, 2019, 3:00pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/dont-delete-your-tab-navigator/156071 "2019-07-25T15:00:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@rpdp](https://community.thunkable.com/u/rpdp)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2019, 3:00pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/dont-delete-your-tab-navigator/156071/1 "2019-07-25T15:00:26Z")
I had a serviceable Bottom Tab Navigator on my (in development) App. I haven’t touched it for a while, and now I return to it the tabs have shrunk in height and the text on each tab has disappeared. I haven’t used icons.
So I thought I’d delete and recreate the Navigator. The problem is that all my screens seem to be contained in the Navigator, so having deleted the Navigator I’ve deleted everything. Screens, Blocks, everything. Weeks of exploration and progress gone in a single click.
Do I have any hope of getting it back?
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### Author:  [@BlueWhaleYT](https://community.thunkable.com/u/BlueWhaleYT)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2019, 3:07pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/dont-delete-your-tab-navigator/156071/2 "2019-07-25T15:07:34Z")
Was your navigator combine the component? That would be deleted it together,I think have a message will alert to you when you delete before. Thanks.
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### Author:  [@rpdp](https://community.thunkable.com/u/rpdp)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2019, 3:08pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/dont-delete-your-tab-navigator/156071/3 "2019-07-25T15:08:48Z")
Sorry - don’t understand the question.
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### Author:  [@kartik\_old](https://community.thunkable.com/u/kartik_old)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2019, 3:46pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/dont-delete-your-tab-navigator/156071/4 "2019-07-25T15:46:04Z")
> [@BlueWhaleYT](#):
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> That would be deleted it together,I think have a message will alert to you when you delete before
He means that - **_“You get a confirm delete message before any componet’s delete process.”_**
> [@rpdp](#):
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> Do I have any hope of getting it back?
No… I can’t confirm this; you may ask any admin…
Thanks! 😄
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### Author:  [@rpdp](https://community.thunkable.com/u/rpdp)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2019, 9:36pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/dont-delete-your-tab-navigator/156071/5 "2019-07-25T21:36:01Z")
Well yes, I got a “Are you sure you want to delete your Navigator” message, but it didn’t say “Are you sure you want to delete absolutely everything you have created over the last few weeks”.
To be honest, pointing out that I was offered a confirmation message doesn’t really help me. I was seeking to:
1. Warn anyone else who may not realise that the entire App is contained within the Navigator component, and gets deleted along with it;
2. Hope that some kind Administrator might take pity on me and offer to restore my lost work (I can provide App name etc.)
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### Author:  [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2024, 12:12pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/dont-delete-your-tab-navigator/156071/6 "2024-11-08T12:12:06Z")