The game just erased all of my favorites...

...I started building and when I went to custom folders *POOF* my favorites were gone. They were also unchecked in the various sections of the ribbon. Can I get them back or do I have to add each one again?

I gave up on them because it kept happening. It sure is a pain, I know. I added them all back multiple times, but kept happening so I don't bother now.

It feels to me that they somehow save favorites to the cloud and not locally, so when you lose cloud connection for whatever reason briefly (like when the "you can't enter text" bug happens) you lose favorites temporarily - and if you open that menu when they are blank, the blank "saves" over it, so they get effectively erased.

That's just my assumption after dealing with the bug for awhile.

Favorites have never worked for me on the Wii U...so I have scroll through everything every time!

Yes, no the Wii U the favorites folder is not present. You can still favorite an item, but you don't have a separate folder to find them in, so it doesn't mean anything on the Wii U.

Thanks. I figured it must be a glitch of some kind.