Content Drawer not showing all folders

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Summary

I am new to UE. I am using Windows 11 and UE 5.6 on a blank project.

I imported some assets from Fab and also from the UE Library. They were showing just fine at first.

When I opened the project after few hours, the folders were messed up:

  • some of them are sown on the left side part of the content drawer but not in the right one
  • some of them are missing completely
  • the folders exists in the project folders (Show in Explorer)
  • the project is working fine with the assets used, nothing is broken

I tried the “Update Redirector References” and I got the message “Failed to load some assets” but without any error message.

What am I missing?

Please select what you are reporting on:

Creative

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Assets

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Import anything from Fab/UE Library
  2. Save the project
  3. Close the project
  4. Open the project

Expected Result

View everything in the content drawer

Observed Result

Asset folders are missing or not completely shown

Platform(s)

Windows 11

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I’m having the same issue. Never experienced this prior to 5.6. Incredibly frustrating, surprised no one else raised this problem sooner.

Issue seems to affect all imported assets that are not actively loaded.

For example, if I create a folder under Content called ‘Meshes’ and import an .fbx file, then close and re-open Unreal Editor, I can no longer see the Meshes folder in the Content Browser. If I manually browse to that location with Windows Explorer I can still see the Meshes folder in MyProject\Content\Meshes and the .uasset file in it. No folders or assets have been deleted, the Content Browser is just failing to show it for whatever reason.

Workaround: Drag and drop the fbx somewhere into the current default map so it loads at launch.

Additional:

  • If I click on the Gear icon on the right hand side of Content Browser, ‘All Folder’ is already ticked.
  • If I right-click on the Content folder and select ‘Validate Assets in Folder’ I see no error messages and the issue persists.
  • If I right-click on the Content folder and select ‘Update Redirector Referrences’ I see no error messages and the issue persists.
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I’ve also been having this issue. It’s incredibly frustrating. The only way I can keep assets visible in the Content Browser is having them loaded somehow in the default map.

I hope Epic fixes this soon.

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Update: Launching the project through Epic Games Launcher instead of building it from the IDE fixed it for me. It seems there were some missing binaries causing the issue.

Edit: After the issue cropped up again, I just ended up migrating the files to a fresh project. I’m still unsure what exactly caused this.

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I just moved to 5.6.1 and I am now getting this specifically in the content folder of my plugins. Static mesh, skeletal mesh and animation assets all seem to be fine, but materials and niagara systems are very sporadic and only show sometimes when actively loaded.

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I’d also like to add that I have been encountering this issue after moving up from 5.4 to 5.6.1

It seems to affect both manually created folders and subfolders and also content added through fab or through epic games launcher with the “add to project” functionality. It’s also not consistent meaning sometimes everything works just fine.

Perhaps worth mentioning that this happens in a project without any source control enabled so it can’t be attributed to source control shenanigans.

I did solve it by deleting binaries, intermediate and saved folders but I assume it’s a matter of time before this problem returns.

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FORT-981341 has been added to our ‘To Do’ list. Someone’s been assigned this task.

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I have found if you open the project with the “Unreal Project Browser”

it will mess up your project if it is not version 5.5.4.

I get this error when I try and open a newer project it will error with your project version was not created with UE 5.5.4 then it will exit or close.

If you then open the project with epic game launcher or click on the project folder it will not show all files or folders.

This fix worked for me

  1. open file explorer and go to your project that is not showing all files and folders
  2. right click on the “myprojectname.uproject”
  3. Click on “Switch Unreal Engine Version” (Select one version higher than current Version if you do not see this you will need to download and install a newer engine version)

Note: You might be able to downgrade to lower version number also but I have not tried this.

  1. Now click/double-click the “myprojectname.uproject” wait for it to open completely. once loaded you can exit the project.

Note: Do not open the project with anything else you must open it with

“myprojectname.uproject”

  1. Now repeat the same steps above and change the version number back to the original.

Now you should be able to see all files and folders and can launch project with epic games launcher like normal.

Thank you for reading and i hope this helps someone