EU4 crashes when loading project even after I deleted the designated file.

I’m trying to recover a project that I can no longer open because it crashes when opening. I’ve deleted VehicleGameMode.cpp but it still appears as the reason for the crash. Please help!

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x00000000000001c0

UE4Editor_VehicleGame_8563!AVehicleGameGameMode::AVehicleGameGameMode() [C:\Users\Username\OneDrive\Documents\Unreal Projects\VehicleGame\Source\VehicleGame\VehicleGameGameMode.cpp:17]

unreal will create intermediary files that will use instead of those you see in the content folder. usually if all goes well when you remove them from the content folder unreal will do its stuff behind scene and update the intermediary files. but this may fail off course.

first save a copy of the entire project as it is. use winrar to backup the entire folder. if something doesn’t work after the following changes you delete the messed up project and you unzip the rar file

then delete all folders specified in this thread. but do not do this if you don’t have a backup