Packaging a project does nothing/Cannot Zip a project

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On the latest version of Unreal Engine, I can’t seem to do anything outside of the viewport, meaning:

  • I cannot Package a Project, it says “Packaging Complete” instantly and when I go to the folder there’s nothing inside.
  • I cannot Zip a Project, it says “Zipping project complete” instantly, but when I head to the folder there’s nothing inside.
  • I cannot Launch in Windows, HTML, it says launch complete after building but it never launches. I can only play my game inside the Viewport.

I’ll gladly show any logs but there isn’t much that any of them say.

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Solved:

Turns out it was a Windows issue. After creating a new user in Windows and setting up my project there everything packaged perfectly.

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I am currently experiencing the same issue but unable to find a solution. Everything works just fine, but when I go to Zip a Project, after saying it is complete, nothing is in the destination folder.

Any ideas?

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Found a solution on a Reddit post. It fixes the problem in UE5 when trying to zip or package a project.

  1. Copy the file “hostfxr.dll” from:
    C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_5.0EA\Engine\Binaries\ThirdParty\DotNet\Windows\host\fxr\3.1.9
    to:
    C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_5.0EA\Engine\Binaries\DotNET\AutomationTool

  2. Download and install .NET Core 3.1 Runtime from:
    https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/3.1/runtime

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Thank you!

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Any idea what to do if this doesn’t work. I’ve had to do this before and it fixed the issue but i have ran into the problem again and this time i run repair because the fix has already been installed once and it doesn’t help fix the issue.

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Thank you very much!