Blueprint Does Not Appear In Content Browser

BaseDrop0 · May 10, 2025, 4:11pm

Hello,

I have an animation blueprint that is not showing up in the content browser, but the blueprint is still working in-game. I am using version 5.4

If I try to ‘locate item in content browser’ from the player controller, it takes me to the location where the file should be, but no file.

I see the asset in the file explorer

Things I have tried:

Restart Editor
Validate Assets in Folder
Launching the project from Visual Studio
Generating Visual Studio Files

Please let me know if anyone has any ideas.

Pixel_Punk · May 12, 2025, 8:31am

How big is the uasset file in explorer?
If it’s only 5K check if you moved it and only a redirector is left.

You can show redirectors under filters → Other → show redirectors

BaseDrop0 · May 13, 2025, 12:42am

The file is 405kb. And the file does not appear when I filter by redirected.

BaseDrop0 · May 13, 2025, 3:03am

OK So I found out that compiling C++ in engine is causing the file to disappear in the content browser. I then need to have the file open and compile the blueprint for it to reappear in my content browser. But if I don’t have it open, I have no way of recovering it without reverting in p4v.

How I got the file back:
I went into perforce and downloaded a revision from ~1 month ago, file shows up. Revert to latest version, and all my changes are there, and it pops up in the content browser.

When I go to save, I noticed that it says the type is “empty package”. I’m not familiar with what that means.

Hawkeye_Search · April 10, 2026, 9:28am

We created a tool that you can hopefully use to validate these things.

In this case you can for instance search on similar blueprints and see if you get any references that is different in the files that work compared to the file that does not work.

Hope it can help