# Unable to create project files for 4.8 preview 3

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**Category:** Programming & Scripting\
**Tags:** unreal-engine\
**Created:** [May 26, 2015, 6:39pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unable-to-create-project-files-for-4-8-preview-3/319818 "2015-05-26T18:39:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 27, 2015, 7:35pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unable-to-create-project-files-for-4-8-preview-3/319818/6 "2015-05-27T19:35:49Z")

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Ok, was worth a shot. Up next, can you get your launcher logs? You can see how to do that at the following link.

> **[A new, community-hosted Unreal Engine Wiki](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/a-new-community-hosted-unreal-engine-wiki/141494)**
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> After over a year in maintenance mode, the official Unreal Engine Wiki is now permanently offline. These resources now live on a new community-run Unreal Engine Community Wiki — https://unrealcommunity.wiki/! You will be able to find content from...

Other than that, since it may take some time to find out why exactly this is happening by looking at the logs, can you try downloading the source version of 4.8 through Github and seeing if that will work for you? The link below can explain how to do this:

> **[A new, community-hosted Unreal Engine Wiki](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/a-new-community-hosted-unreal-engine-wiki/141494)**
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> After over a year in maintenance mode, the official Unreal Engine Wiki is now permanently offline. These resources now live on a new community-run Unreal Engine Community Wiki — https://unrealcommunity.wiki/! You will be able to find content from...

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