Can't rebuild my game/upgrade because UE5 EA is not available anymore

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Recently I had a full SSD failure. No problem, I keep my game backed up in other places, source control, etc.

The problem is, I did not have UE5.0 EA backed up. When I try to upgrade my project it fails, every time. If I open VS and look at the logs, I am getting an issue that it can’t build because it is looking for UE5.0 EA files…

You can no longer download and install UE5.0 EA. So… how SoL am I? This is almost a year of personal work, hundreds, close to a thousand hours of work.

Any ideas? I am assuming I can retarget VS to build with a newer version and MAYBE it will work. I am just not sure how to do it, but I am trying to find out.

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Fixed it.

In Visual Studio goto Project Preferences. Everywhere it says your old install, replace those directories with the new install.

On top of that, I have to install VS2022 (because I need some of the new DLLs), and make sure you install all of the needed components. Open your project and compile.

It opens now in 5.2. Seems sketchy as is. So I plan to export out all my work into a clean, new 5.2 project/migrate it all. But at least I didn’t lose all my work.

Hope this helps someone in the future.