Hello, I’ve been working in UE4 for the past 3 years, experienced all sorts of bugs and errors but this is beyond anything.
I was working on the final touches for my archviz project (2months of work) when out of the blue when switching levels I get this error.
Obviously I don’t even own a newer version of the engine. 4.14 just came out today. ( could this be related even though I haven’t downloaded it?)
I have tried copying previous autosaves of the map and tried opening them. Most of them can’t even load assets at all and one of them from 2 weeks ago ( last time i’ve previously worked on this level) started loading but then stopped.
Now…wtf just happened? I have previous autosaves from 2 weeks ago and it still gives loading errors? Today I did nothing …NOTHING new or exceptionally except adjusting some materials.
How can I fix this issue and recover my work?
Please help!
The only thing that I can think of was that I went out of hard disk space at that time. Could this be the cause?
So I have downloaded 4.14 just to test and it gave the same error. Then I went in the autosaved folder and copied back in the content folder the oldest autosave of the map file. After a long loading it opened it but gave this map check errors. http://puu.sh/smdkB/a3a54823be.png
I’m glad that you were able to get one of the backup maps to work. I assume from that last comment that you’ve worked around the issue about not being able to load the map for now? As far as the Map Check warnings you received, could they be related to the 31 load errors that are being listed in that same window?
As for why this happened in the first place, we’ve had people report this issue before but we’ve never been able to reproduce the issue. I don’t believe that it would be related to running out of hard drive space, but that could possibly cause any sort of corruption. I would suggest using some sort of source control like Perforce or Subversion for your project if you plan on working on it for a prolonged period as file corruption is always a possibility, whether it be from an editor issue or something on your computer itself. You would always have reliable backups in this case.
We haven’t heard from you in a while, . Are you still experiencing this issue with any other maps? If so, can you provide the information requested in my previous comment? In the meantime, I’ll be marking this as resolved for tracking purposes.
