Added the Open World Demo Collection pack to my project, which created a duplicate. When I deleted the duplicate project, it deleted the original as well. Looks like Unreal Engine doesn’t throw stuff in the recycling bin either, so I’m probably out of luck recovering all of my work. Might want to fix this lol.
Hi palvand,
This was an old issue that was fixed back in 4.9+. I attempted to reproduce this in 4.15 but adding content to a project no longer creates a duplicate project to migrate the content from. It instead adds the content from a pak file.
How are you adding the content to the project? Launcher > Learn tab > Content > Choose “Add to Project”?
Hey TJ,
Thanks for responding. What I did was add the project from the marketplace in the launcher. It created a second project called “Kite Demo” which had the same thumbnail as my normal project. When I deleted Kite Demo, it deleted the original project as well.
I guess my main concern is that the launcher and Unreal for some reason don’t send things to the recycling bin, why is that? Data should always have a second chance 
That is a known issue that’s logged as JIRA UE-16481. Follow that link to monitor the status of the bug report and feel free to vote. I’ll also post on the internal version that users are also asking for this.
Cheers,
TJ