How do I increase the overall landscape resolution?

If you look at the attached image below you can see the vertices on the shoreline of my landscape.

I have been trying to increase the resolution of the landscape to make these curves smoother. (everything else in my project is perfect). I know that the vertices are too far apart and if I scale the landscape down I will have to resculpt.

When I use the landscape->manage-resize tool to resample, the program crashes and sends crash report with the following error:

Assertion failed: !RunningPlatformData || RunningPlatformData->DerivedDataKey == DerivedDataKey [File:D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/Engine/Private/TextureDerivedData.cpp] [Line: 1859]
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UE4Editor_Engine
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UE4Editor_Engine
UE4Editor_UnrealEd
UE4Editor_UnrealEd
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
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ntdll

I have also tried to export the heightmap as an image and increase the resolution of the image in photoshop then reimport but it just distorts the whole landscape.

I have looked everywhere and tried everything apart from recreating and resculpting the entire landscape.

Any help will be highly appreciated as I am pulling my hair out right now.

Regards
Simon