Update: I think I may Have found something. I went to the Template folder to see if I couldent screw around with things there and opened the blank template itself. this poped up and some files began to apear.
after clicking yes it brought up an error message I was unable to screenshot. I tried loading it again with the same message and after getting a screenshot of the first message the message dissapeared and the progect opened and is now being treated like a normal progect. creating a new blank template still crashes but im going to see if I cant fix that.