Asset Management

[Odin_Vex]

@Just Krishna

And now I’m 99% you got some nasty troll in your project, engine installation or system. Or maybe it’s a rare case where faulty hard drive or RAM creates issues.
Why I’m so sure? Because I’m using tons of marketplace packages in any project. Always starting with moving all assets together (textures with materials, functions, meshes). Moving/renaming a lot of assets to match satisfy my naming perversion. It never “crashes and burns”.
Over 4 years, different projects, various machines. I’m not a big fun of redirectors too, but it simply always worked for me.

You don’t have issues with asset management in general. You’re simply unlucky, something’s bad happened in your particular case
I could even test marketplace package you have and repeat steps crashing editor.

I understand your approach and I’m enjoying this cultural conversation.
The thing is… you’re probably asking for changing the philosophy of asset management in Unreal because of issues that aren’t common. You’ve assumed that system is dysfunctional.
Did you ask other people if they have such terrible experience? Did you try to clean up cache, reinstall/verify engine, download project again? Did you try repeat crashes on a different machine? Maybe you did, but you didn’t mention it at all

I’m eager to help you, but I’m not convinced that major system redesign is needed here.

I’ve tried in entirely isolated, fresh (OS reinstall too, nothing else but drivers) environments at home, systems are stable, have tried on two workstations so far. RAM is fine, storage is fine. I don’t have issues with asset-management in general. I have an issue with UE’s Redirector asset-management. I’ve assumed the system dysfunctional because it’s the only thing crashing to desktop and the plethora of Google/Forum results showing others have had issues with Redirector asset-management, for a number of years now, (though I can’t say how much more than what results I’ve found trying to track this down).

Side-note, “Fix-Up-Redirectors” doesn’t appear to do anything at all on my installations. No extra IO, no files ever get cleaned up, no matter what folders I try it on.

I appreciate your attempts at helping resolve this, but I think I’ll just try and grab UE source, wade through it and try to remove the entire concept of Redirectors and attempt to implement the concept I was hoping for. Maybe something else is causing all of it to fail, though I couldn’t guess what it might be. Probably going to be more work than this is worth.