So I’m trying to put a few old projects into my external hard drive since I’ve ran out of storage and I need to backup my projects, thing is, is that whenever I open the project, it goes all blank for me, I have errors in my output log, screen appears to be black with nothing in the scene, and several other stuff missing, does anyone know what the problem could be, I heard that it could be related to assets and absolute paths, what can I do if it already happened, how would I go on fixing it?
Just to make sure, the best way to make a backup is go to the menu bar at the top of the editor and select File > Zip Project. This will generate a ZIP archive of your project, minus things like temporary files and derived data that you don’t really need for backup purposes.
Then, to restore it, unpacking the ZIP into the UE folder and double-click the project file should make it work. But from your data, this seem to not be working at all.
Please make sure that the project is deployed in its original location, so paths for any related packs or content added to UE work accordingly. Additionally, check if you are using the same UE version as the original project.
But if I already changed the location of the project (like moving it to a different folder) and the assets appear to have disappeared, how would I go on about fixing that, because I don’t know which project is in its original folder or not (since for some reason my Unreal Engine Projects decided to make a new folder to store themselves in, when there was already a folder to begin with so I just moved them to the new folder but I don’t know which projects I moved).
In that case, the next step would be to test if the backup self-contained everything it need to operate on itself, or not. If possible, install a clean, latest version of UE5 in a different PC or laptop, then deploy your project, and try to open if from there. If the issue persists with this setup, unfortunately it would mean that your project is missing critical data, and it may not be possible to re-open it.
