# Redirectors won't fix up / delete

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/redirectors-wont-fix-up-delete/1869483>\
**Category:** Programming & Scripting\
**Tags:** redirector, unreal-engine, editor, question\
**Created:** [May 23, 2024, 4:38pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/redirectors-wont-fix-up-delete/1869483 "2024-05-23T16:38:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Evigmae](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/evigmae/32/1187349_2.png) [@Evigmae](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Evigmae)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 4:38pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/redirectors-wont-fix-up-delete/1869483/1 "2024-05-23T16:38:35Z")

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Anyone might have any ideas why a redirector, which normally behaves as expected, might not be able to be fixed up / deleted?  
This message is all i get in the log: LogUObjectGlobals: Warning: Could not delete

It seems to indicate its working normally at first. but then just won’t delete. eg:

 ![image](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/9/e/2/9e2cbfc6b764c895bcf4b1399f376a9b27872873.png)

Checked it wasn’t something wrong with perforce, and made a copy of the project and made everything writable with source control disabled, and still won’t work.

This was happening in 5.3, and still happening in 5.4.1

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**Author:** ![D\_Chap](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@D\_Chap](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/D_Chap)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 8:19pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/redirectors-wont-fix-up-delete/1869483/2 "2024-08-16T20:19:18Z")

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I’ve been having this problem since updating to 5.4. The process for cleaning up redirectors has changed and sometimes they don’t delete after they’ve been ‘cleaned up’.

Looking in the output log I can see the delete failed but no indication of why.

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**Author:** ![BojanglesTheLess](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@BojanglesTheLess](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/BojanglesTheLess)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2024, 11:18am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/redirectors-wont-fix-up-delete/1869483/3 "2024-12-24T11:18:02Z")

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bump

I’m also using perforce. Seeing this in 5.3.2.

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**Author:** ![BojanglesTheLess](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@BojanglesTheLess](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/BojanglesTheLess)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 5:58pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/redirectors-wont-fix-up-delete/1869483/4 "2024-12-27T17:58:16Z")

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I eventually found a solution:

1. inside unreal, copy the assets to another folder inside the unreal project
2. close unreal
3. delete the `saved` and `intermediate` folders
4. reopen unreal
5. fix redirectors
6. close unreal
7. commit to perforce
8. move the files back to their original location

It wasn’t giving me issues after all of that. I saw somewhere else that moving files forces unreal to fix redirectors in cases where it won’t otherwise, that’s what ended up solving this for me.

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**Author:** ![GatoDev](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/gatodev/32/719915_2.png) [@GatoDev](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/GatoDev)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 4:39pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/redirectors-wont-fix-up-delete/1869483/5 "2024-12-30T16:39:18Z")

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This worked perfectly. Thanks for sharing.