Why is fortnite un installed after todays update ??? whats happened - I cant do anything even re install

General Issues and Bug Reporting
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Summary

I have no idea whats happens but my fortnite says install instead of update and when i click install it says directory must be empty

Please select what you are reporting on:

Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Stability

Steps to Reproduce

I have no clue everything was fine last night i turned my pc on today and bad this happened its like due to the update it doesnt know fortnite is installed and cannot then install fortnite as the folder is already full of fortnite exe ect

Expected Result

for it to work before the update

Observed Result

its broken

Platform(s)

pc

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Cant even uninstall through the epic game launcher :frowning:

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@Flak

Hey Flak

Can someone at Epic explain how i uninstall Fortnite ect so i can re install I’m losing time and its frustrating that i cannot do anything.

I cant even uninstall through the pc as Fortnite doesn’t show in the programs.

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I managed to get it to install again i just selected the Fortnite folder again.

Im unsure if this will dupe the Fortnite client ect but its doing something.

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Worst bug issue with the Epic Game Launcher to date!!!

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What a disappointment. We have to download Full fornite instead of just update. Hello @Epic Shame on you. You never provided any valid answer on such launcher bugs.

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Hey @AtAshTag so sorry for the trouble here.

We’ve identified some issues with the launcher version that we pushed yesterday. We’re rolling back and think that will resolve the issue.

Your issue appears to be somewhat different. Could you toss me your logs for the launcher?

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Sent :slight_smile:

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Ty :raising_hands:

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@AtAshTag could you zip up this folder also and send it over? C:\ProgramData\Epic\EpicGamesLauncher\Data\Manifests

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Done :slight_smile:

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FORT-984762 has been ‘Closed’. The issue reported is not caused by a bug in the tool.

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hi all,

The consoles Nintendo Switch1 , Android EPGL/Fortnite, and Xbox One are all updated properly.

This seems to be a problem with the PC Epic Games Launcher. (EPGL)

If you don’t have your settings set to Auto Update, you wouldn’t have encountered this problem.

Turn off Auto Update in EPGL for a few days.

Unfortunately, you may need to uninstall EPGL and then install a new version to obtain the new working version.

Well, that’s what happened on my Windows 10 copy.