MyProjects doesn't find user projects on mac

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Hello,

I’m new in UE and I’m stuck trying to see my projects after I’ve created one.

I’ve downloaded the Epic Games Launcher, installed the last engine version, started a new project.

But in the Epic Game Launcher, the section MyProjects in Unreal Engine > Library > MyProjects is still empty.

I have no way to see what is the location defined in the app for my projects.

I’ve found the project in another way, which is fine I guess as I can run the .uproject file in root folder of the project.

However, I’d like to test exporting things in the project, for testing a bit the engine. I’m going to the Fab, find some plants and download it. Once I got the export button active, it doesn’t find the project I’ve created, which is actually open in the same time.

I’m on mac with Apple M1 Max chip

My question here is how I fix this bug to get the app find my projects folder ?

Thanks for anyone that will take time to help to solve my issue

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Find your projects (whatever folder you saved them in), and double click on uproject file. After one opening unreal launcher will remember that project.

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Hi,

Thanks for trying but that doesn’t fix the issue

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Hello,

I’ve tried to uninstall/reinstall the launcher and it didn’t solve the issue either.

I’ve looked at the logs, it seems it found the latest opened projects, but I have no clue what it does behind that log. Here is a trace if that can help:

[2025.11.09-08.39.46:968][ 34]LogDesktopPlatform: Enumerating Projects From Engine Ver: 5.6
[2025.11.09-08.39.46:968][ 34]LogDesktopPlatform: Looking for directories to scan from : /myHome/Library/Application Support/Epic/UnrealEngine/5.6/Saved/Config/MacEditor
[2025.11.09-08.39.46:969][ 34]LogDesktopPlatform: Searching for previously created project directories…
[2025.11.09-08.39.46:969][ 34]LogDesktopPlatform: Found directory: “/myHome/Documents/Unreal Projects”
[2025.11.09-08.39.46:969][ 34]LogDesktopPlatform: Found project “(ProjectName=”/myHome/Documents/Unreal Projects/OnlineLearningKit6/OnlineLearningKit6.uproject",LastOpenTime=2025.11.07-19.58.00)" in recently opened files
[2025.11.09-08.39.46:969][ 34]LogDesktopPlatform: Found project “(ProjectName=”/myHome/Documents/Unreal Projects/MyProject/MyProject.uproject",LastOpenTime=2025.11.07-20.31.39)" in recently opened files
[2025.11.09-08.39.46:969][ 34]LogDesktopPlatform: Searching for projects in .uprojectdirs
[2025.11.09-08.39.46:969][ 34]LogDesktopPlatform: Enumerating Projects From Engine Ver: 5.2
[2025.11.09-08.39.46:969][ 34]LogDesktopPlatform: Looking for directories to scan from : /myHome/Library/Application Support/Epic/UnrealEngine/5.2/Saved/Config/MacEditor
[2025.11.09-08.39.46:969][ 34]LogDesktopPlatform: /myHome/Library/Application Support/Epic/UnrealEngine/5.2/Saved/Config/MacEditor not found, looking for directories in /myHome/Library/Application Support/Epic/UnrealEngine/5.2/Saved/Config/Mac
[2025.11.09-08.39.46:969][ 34]LogDesktopPlatform: Config not found
[2025.11.09-08.39.46:969][ 34]LogDesktopPlatform: Searching for projects in .uprojectdirs