Renaming or moving a Widget Blueprint causes validation errors and requires a full editor restart

Summary

Renaming or moving a Widget Blueprint causes validation errors and requires a full editor restart

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Assets

Steps to Reproduce

Create a Widget Blueprint, Launch a session successfully.

Move or rename the widget blueprint, try to launch a session.

Expected Result

The session launches as normal

Observed Result

The session throws validation errors and the only way to fix them is by restarting the entire editor.

Pressing “Run Fix-Up” does not fix.

Platform(s)

PC

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A similar issue happens when moving Verse files between folders, also requiring an editor restart

FORT-1133238 has been ‘Backlogged’. This is an issue that is in a queue to be addressed.