[Crash] Ghost files crashing my editor #UE5

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Hi,

I’m currently digging an old project from the grave and getting issues (crash) when moving or renaming files (even a right click on them)

The project was upgraded from UE4.21 all the way to UE5 without any issue (I upgraded version after version to get things easier). I tried the same things with the old version of the project and I got the same crashes.

Anyway, while looking for a fix I tried to migrate the files to another project and discover some “ghost” files in the project (they aren’t in the windows folder or in the editor folder)

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ue_bug_1615×545 57.2 KB

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ue_bug_2835×183 5.65 KB

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As you can see the files never appear in both windows and the editor. I also made a search in the entire project using VSCode and unix find command but nothing.
I tried to remove all the binaries, intermediate etc
I tried to “Fix up redirectors in folder” everywhere

My guess is that those dead links are stored somewhere in a binary but I don’t how to get rid of them. I can’t interact with any file getting a dependency on these ghost files without a editor crash

help me :frowning:

Thank you very much

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do you have the windows explorer option to show the hidden files? maybe you can find them like that

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Yes it’s enable
I tried to get the files from an old commit and add them to the project, but nothing changed
I discoverd that the references are inside some of my assets (like an anim blueprint) but as I can’t open them without an editor crash, I can’t try to fix it in some way.
So I’m deleting all the “corrupted” files and will recreate them, hope it will work

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