I tried to start a backup of my project because I had a crash where some errors that I made were saved. Only that when I opened the backup file, the project appears empty, even though it actually has the right size. I have always zipped the project using ue and assigned the files to different specific destinations. Was I doing it wrong? And what can I do to recover the files?
Currently I solved it by creating a new empty project, and replacing the content and config folders. This is to verify that the backup actually took place entirely and successfully. I tried a migrate to directly export the files I needed from the copy to the original project, it didn’t work, so this time I replaced the individual .uasset files manually. Now everything seems solved. Probably there was some setting that I hadn’t set regarding the level start. I think. Anyway, here’s a post for anyone who might ever have the same problem.
That’s not how you backup.
And the issue might be related to this:
Not really sure what you mean by that 
Anyways, if your original project is still safe, to back it up, you can simply copy the Config, Content and Source (if you have) folders and the .uproject file.
Once those are copied, create a new folder (the name doesn’t need to be the name of your project however it can’t be any name Windows accepts, for example it can’t have special characters except for underscore and it might cause issues if it’s longer than 20 characters) and paste them inside.
Now you’ve successfully created a backup! To open it:
If you have a Source folder, in our backup directory, right click on the .uproject folder, click on more options, and hit the Generate Visual Studio Project Files option. Then you can either build the project via VS, or double click on the .uproject file and say ok for a rebuild.
If you don’t have a Source folder, we just skip the generation of VS files step, so you can go ahead and double click on your .uproject file and say ok for a rebuild.
Omg @Cykablatta I think we posted at the same time 
I’m glad that happened though because now you can also take a look at the more ideal approach above 
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I meant that each backup file had a specific and distinct directory, to avoid overwriting problems etc.
AHAHAHAHAHAH it’s awesome! I’m glad I got a response from you! 
But what did you mean by rebuild? I don’t know this option. @VisAgilis
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You’ll see when you get to that step 
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