# If you could offer one piece of advice to new UE4 Users... **URL:** \ **Category:** Community & Industry Discussion\ **Tags:** unreal-engine\ **Created:** [September 11, 2014, 6:06pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/if-you-could-offer-one-piece-of-advice-to-new-ue4-users/11234 "2014-09-11T18:06:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jezcentral](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Jezcentral](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Jezcentral)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/if-you-could-offer-one-piece-of-advice-to-new-ue4-users/11234/41 "2014-09-17T21:07:53Z")
My advice is: for the love of God, look at the ContentExamples download. How did I not see before? It is level after level of stuff that Epic have done for you. Look at it and learn. ---
**Author:** ![newbprofi](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@newbprofi](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/newbprofi)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 9:50pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/if-you-could-offer-one-piece-of-advice-to-new-ue4-users/11234/42 "2014-09-17T21:50:27Z")
1 hour ago i had my test project become unopenable for some unknown reason, when i open it - editor crushes with error. And is not 1st time. So my advice is: **Always make dayly backups of your important UE4 projects** ---
**Author:** ![anonymous\_user\_0df12f74](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@anonymous\_user\_0df12f74](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/anonymous_user_0df12f74)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 10:11pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/if-you-could-offer-one-piece-of-advice-to-new-ue4-users/11234/43 "2014-09-17T22:11:32Z")
[=;145332] **Always make daily backups of your important UE4 projects** [/] Better yet, add your project into SVN or Perforce. Then you can have it set a time to auto save any and all changes. I personally use Visual SVN Server paired with TortoiseSVN (and AnkhSvn for Visual ), They work great, and I have used them for a long time so for me it is easier than Perforce. Then while the VisualSvn server is running, you can push a commit automatically (recommended), as well as manually if you need to at any time. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![newbprofi](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@newbprofi](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/newbprofi)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 10:23pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/if-you-could-offer-one-piece-of-advice-to-new-ue4-users/11234/44 "2014-09-17T22:23:18Z")
[=;145346] Better yet, add your project into SVN or Perforce. Then you can have it set a time to auto save any and all changes. I personally use Visual SVN Server paired with TortoiseSVN (and AnkhSvn for Visual ), They work great, and I have used them for a long time so for me it is easier than Perforce. Then while the VisualSvn server is running, you can push a commit automatically (recommended), as well as manually if you need to at any time. 🙂 [/] y, very nice append ---
**Author:** ![BinarySword](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/binarysword/32/472675_2.png) [@BinarySword](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/BinarySword)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 4:05am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/if-you-could-offer-one-piece-of-advice-to-new-ue4-users/11234/45 "2016-02-05T04:05:00Z")
As the great Colonel Stars and Stripes from Kick-\*\*\* 2 aka Jim Carrey once said: ![tumblr_mu6453XFBI1rt7b8xo1_500.gif](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/7/c7ece597b15d8b59940613372c88a33f19abd063.gif)&stc=1 [Previous page](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/if-you-could-offer-one-piece-of-advice-to-new-ue4-users/11234.md?page=2)