Duplicate Folder Issues

[Nman_Pkr]

Please select what you are reporting on:

Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

UI/Tools

Summary

When duplicating a folder, the new actors are placed in the OG folder and New target folder is left empty. Output Log Dumps:

LogProperty: Warning: Illegal TEXT reference to a private object in external package (MaterialInstanceDynamic /Engine/Transient.MaterialInstanceDynamic_678)

Followed By:

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UnknownFunction
UnknownFunction
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Doesn’t matter what actors you duplicate.

Steps to Reproduce

Create a folder, place at least 1 actor in it. Attempt to duplicate the parent folder hierarchy.

Expected Result

Duplicate the folder correctly with all children folders respected.

Observed Result

As described, all actors are duplicated in place rather then into new target folder hiearchy.

Platform(s)

UEFN.

[Nman_Pkr]

See this post as it has video showing the same issue I’m having:

Major - UEFN - "Duplicate hierarchy" keeps actors in the original folder

As seen below, I right-clicked Factory_T1 in the outliner and pressed “duplicate hierarchy”. However, that didn’t move all actors to Factory_T2 causing a messed up folder structure where half of the actors are in the old folder. DM me to send you the project file if you want to repro it. uefn-attachments-2022.11.05-15.37.51.zip (18.6 MB)

Edit:
This issue stems from UE5.2:

Duplicate Hierarchy Keeps actors in original folder, UE5.2

Hello and good time of day, I’ve encounter a problem in UE5.2, when I right click on a folder in the outliner to duplicate it and it’s hierarchy first of all I have double the options, and when I click on duplicate it creates a empty copy of the folders and all of the duplicated actors in the original folder. [image] [Screenshot 2023-06-15 141947] The doubling of the options happen in 5.2 in general, the problem with the duplication seems to be on just specific level. Nonetheless it is stra…

[Nman_Pkr]

Checked this post V26.10 update still buggered.

[Nman_Pkr]

Update: While I can’t offer a solution, I do know now that root cause of this problem at least in my case. It happens whenever I select two ore more props that are in separate folders (Sharing no common parent(s) other then the top level directory) and duplicate them by holding Alt key and dragging on the Gizmo.

[Bug-Reporter]

The status of this incident has been moved from ‘Awaiting Validation’ to ‘Needs Triage’.

[JennyChouABC1]

Same issue. The Way I solve while waiting Unreal team to solve it. Select all descendants with the folders, copy it, create a new level, paste the folders to the new level, change the folders name, again copy and paste the folders to the original level. Solve.

[Flak]

Could someone send me their logs or give me more detailed instructions on how to make this happen?

[Nman_Pkr]

Can’t use the editor anymore due to ban wave, but If you just take a folder with a lot of actors in it, right click duplicate, most of the time it creates the new named folder but leaves it empty and everything else is placed in the original parent folder. Once it happens once in a project, it will keep happening. It seems to be 1/10 occurrence in my experience. I have only seen this when there about 100+ props in the folder you are duplicating.

For anyone having this issue, To easily remedy it do this: Duplicate the folder, Click off in the editor to deselect everything, press Ctrl + Z to undo and it will reselect everything, right click one of the selected actors in the outliner and right click → move to folder → the new folder. You will lose all subfolder structure, but at least can get the duplicated actors out of the parent folder.