I was editing my project today at 7/6/25 around 1pm, all of a sudden my project crashed and when I reopened it, it launched a version of this project that was 1 month older. Is there any way I can get that progress back or am I just going to give up?
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Hey Mr-PENGUINZ,
Do you Check-in Changes with URC ?
Im new to UEFN so I don’t know what that is, its now been a day and my project still hasnt came back.
I have uploaded multiple private versions of the island, the last only being a couple days old which means I would only lose a couple hours or even minutes of work if I can somehow get back to these versions. This is a project that I’ve worked for everyday the past month for many hours, it’s not fair that it crashes one day and then resets my data back for no reason.
Bottom right corner of the editor is Check-in Changes & Revision Control
Check in Changes saves an online backup snapshot to URC
If you open snapshot history, you can get a list of snapshots that you have made.
New projects created after the latest do this automatically now, unfortunately yours was created before this.
Eek, a big problem is OneDrive. OneDrive will mess with UEFN…
Silly, because thats the default location we are given and unless we are aware of the issue…problems
Worse case, yes you will have to redo stuff, annoying, heartbreaking, but in the end it turns out for the better, your more skilled now, than a month ago… more practice… well thats what I tell myself, I’ve probably lost somewhere between 6 and 9 months of work all up… but its 6-9 months experience gained.
OK in UEFN open Editor Preferences and near the start, add a new Project Folders location, like C:\Fortnite Projects, somewhere thats not under OneDrive control
I don’t know if you can get OneDrive to undo its changes made on the day your Project went cactus… if it is the issue
Anyway Close the editor and move your entire Fortnite Projects folder from your User/Documents to C:\Fortnite Projects
Make another folder like C:\ProjectBackup then move ExtinctionX folder from C:\Fortnite Projects to C:\ProjectBackup.
Open UEFN and you will get a download notification for ExtinctionX, download to get your latest snapshot… Make snapshots daily…
now you can compare the size of the newly downloaded ExtinctionX in projects to the one in backup.
If they are similar, disappointing…
If they aren’t, you may be able to copy the folders over to add your content in.
One or two of your backup project files are probably corrupted, but the UASSETs in the alphabetical folders are the ones you want, they are map actors
You may be able to copy them from the folder and paste them into the map or replace the newly downloaded folders with the folders from the backup.
Well thanks for all the help, I’ve tried everything and it seems that my project is lost but I won’t let this stop me from doing what I want to do. I guess I’ll suck it up and rebuild it with 1 extra month of experience. Hopefully my work gets recognized once I publish this map sometime this year.
