Name of folder blocks compilation of Unreal

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Hello everyone!

I’ve been trying to use CPP with Unreal for some days now, however, whenever I go into Visual Studio to compile it from there, I get this error :

Error|C1083|Cannot open compiler intermediate file: ‘C:\Users\РРчР?С?Р?РёР№\Documents\UnrealProjects\LyraStarterGame\Intermediate\Build\Win64\x64\LyraEditor\Development\UnrealEd\SharedPCH.UnrealEd.Cpp20.h.pch’:

“No such file or directory C:\Users"MyNameInRussian”\Documents\Unreal Projects\LyraStarterGame\Intermediate\ProjectFiles\c1xx"

Does this happen to my user folder being written with Russian/Cyrillic characters which are probably not in ASCII ?

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Hey @Rossakis1! Welcome to the Forums!

That is almost guaranteed what is happening here. Switching the characters to ASCII should fix your problem with compilation.

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From what I know, however, changing the name of a folder in the “C:/Users” directory is impossible or will create many broken links with things that lead to that.

Do I have to create a different user with the appropriate folder name and copy everything from the previous user folder to the new one, unless there is a better way?

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Hey @Rossakis1,

If the error is coming from the root user, your best bet is most likely to use a different user to accomplish the task. I am unaware of a workaround for this, but another community member may have one.