Project lost because of the **** launcher. FML

Development Architectural and Design Visualization
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I had a very important and almost completed arch viz project and I’ve just lost everything. Vanished. Can’t believe it. it’s the **** launcher’s fault!!!

let me explain.

Let’s say my project is called project 1.

I have a few items in my vault. Let’s say I want to add the lightroom demo content from my vault to my project 1. Instead of simply adding the content to my project 1, it also create a lightroom project in my library. (even if I just asked to add lightroom to my project 1)

Now, I wanted to delete old projects. I deleted the standalone lightroom demo…guess what…it deleted ALL projects that had lightroom demo content in it. 3 projects gone when I only deleted 1 project in the launcher.
Better than that…it doesn’t even go to the trashbin…it just vanishes…

Can someone explain me why it’s doing this…I’ve just lost about 2 months of work. :frowning: Can’y believe it.

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Can you recover stuff with UE4 autosafe?

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Are you 100% sure that all your project were deleted -> have you already checked your unreal project folder? (because it could be that they just disappeard in the launcher) :slight_smile:

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I checked. I even tried a recovery software…it recovered over 7000 files but without any folder structure. FML.

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Ya I’ve seen this happen to me before. Unreal has way too many bugs in it, so much so that I make a copy of my project after every session. You never know what you will do to break or loose your project so its important to back up every time.