A bunch of assets no longer showing in Content Browser - HELP!

Hi!

I was working on a project yesterday and everything was going fine. Like an idiot I didn’t backup my changes and today when I open my project a bunch of my materials and material functions are no longer recognized in Unreal?!?! They show in file explorer but not in the engine’s content browser.

Is there anything I can do to recover them??

Thanks!

Hey there @HappyKat100! I’ve seen a couple cases of content drawer not recognizing the assets. Here’s a link to a thread with a possible fix:

If that fails, try and rename the uasset, and change it back during runtime. It will spit errors initially, but could return them sometimes.

@SupportiveEntity - Thanks for the tip. I tried this but didn’t seem to work for me.

For now I sadly just redid the work I lost. But will give this a go if it happens again (obviously I’m making regular backups too).

Thanks very much for the reply!

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