Fully Updated macbookpro M2 max Mac and Unreal = Broken ?

I am on a Macbook pro Max M2 Chip Sonoma ios, and 5.3.1 unreal, xcode 15 and i have Loads of issues.

Epic games launcher issues:

  1. every time i launch it says Project files not associated and asks for fix
  2. in epic launcher, only way i can open projects is to click unreal engine yellow button on right top corner and open project from there.
  3. I cant open .uproject files directly from finder anymore

Unreal engine:

  1. There is a bug with importing animations .uasset files ( dragging files to content folder ) 2. animations just dont work. they have no association with skeletons. it worked only 1 time when fresh installed and on second try all broke. so i cant have no more new animations imported. Tested with others using lower mac versions and windows users all worked.
  2. metahuman hair just keeps breaking its location and detaches from head.

I am sure there are others but these make it impossible to use the engine.

Would love to know. if there are other users experiencing similar issues and if anyone has any idea how to fix this ? could this have smth to do with permissions on mac ?

Maybe we should have a discord just for Mac Issues and solutions ??

ps. It worked well few versions ago, for me on ventura and 5.1. but dongrading IOS is not an option :confused: and i reinstalled clean unreal to check if that helps. and thigs got only worse.

Note. u can manually associate files, but it only fixes opening projects from Finder

Discord channel on Unreal Source (formerly Slackers): Discord

I wrote there too last night, still no answers so far.