UEFN is freezing when I click Menu/File

Summary

as soon as I click Menu File in UEFN it’s freezing completely, GPU usage drops to 0, RAM consumption grows to 11GB, remains unresponsive. If I kill it in task manager - explorer becomes unresponsive. brand new PC with 16GB VRAM an 32GB RAM.

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Stability

Steps to Reproduce

  1. open latest UEFN
  2. create a new or open existing project
  3. hover over menu and click File
  4. uefn becomes unresponsive

Expected Result

not freezing

Observed Result

freezing

Platform(s)

windows

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Additional Notes

I can upload a full memory dump - where?