Critical - UEFN - Autosave didn't work - lost 2.5hrs of work

General Issues and Bug Reporting
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Built an island without saving manually, I had multiple autosave prompts showing in UEFN, and I was building in Creative Edit in all the time that I lost progress (but I sometimes went to UEFN for quick tweaks), live edit was working and synced and I saw all my progress shown in UEFN too. At some point, I crashed (both UEFN and Creative) and when I came back the save reverted to 2.5hrs ago, losing all the progress I had in the meantime. Attached is the save just in case the saves exist, anything past the progress shown in the picture was lost:

UnrealEditorFortnite-Win64-Shipping_D0NFwUJ2F0
UnrealEditorFortnite-Win64-Shipping_D0NFwUJ2F01068×685 163 KB

Scifi_Dam.zip (6.7 MB)

Repro: Start UEFN and sync with Creative Edit
-Have Creative Edit window active, while you watch UEFN window from another monitor.
-Wait until the autosave prompt appears in UEFN (saving in X time) and place a prop in Creative edit.
-After the autosave close both editors.
-After re-opening UEFN, the prop will not be there.

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Adding to Wert’s autosave bug. I was working for a bit and crashed and the progress I had throughout working did not save. I had manually saved some materials I was working on but that’s the only thing that remained when I booted back up.

Here’s my log.
UnrealEditorFortnite.log (1.5 MB)

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C:\Users<user>\AppData\Local\UnrealEditorFortnite\Saved\Autosaves

Autosaves are stored here. But I suggest you save manually often.

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Is there any way to recover them if we have whats in those folders?

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Oh yes, you would just manually copy it from the autosave folder back to the project’s content folder, overwriting the version there which wasn’t saved as recently with the version from the autosave folder that was saved more recently.