Packaging Failed "pak file already exists"

Hi Everyone,

I’m running into a problem when trying to package our game for distribution. I’ve produced non-distribution builds for a while and everything seems to work fine until I check the ‘Create a release version of the game for distribution’ checkbox, it fails and tells me that my .pak file already exists.

Here are my full build settings:

Build Configuration: Shipping

Cook: By The Book

Release / DLC / Patching Settings
Create a release version of the Game for distribution

Advanced Settings

Compress Content

Store all content in a single file (UnrealPak)

Cooker Configuration: Shipping

Package: Package and store locally

Deploy: Do not deply

Here is the error that I get:

UnrealPak: LogPakFile:Display: Added
7896 files, 2401379890 bytes total,
time 554.72s. CommandUtils.Run: Run:
Took 561.5646086s to run
UnrealPak.exe, ExitCode=0
Project.CreatePak: UnrealPak Done
******* BuildCommand.Execute: ERROR: BUILD FAILED Program.Main: ERROR:
AutomationTool terminated with
exception: Program.Main: ERROR:
Exception in mscorlib: The file
‘C:\dev\UE4.8\GAME\Releases\GAME\WindowsNoEditor\GAME-WindowsNoEditor.pak’
already exists.

The command that runs for UnrealPak is this:

CommandUtils.Run: Run: C:\dev\UE4.8\Engine\Binaries\Win64\UnrealPak.exe C:\dev\UE4.8\GAME\Saved\StagedBuilds\WindowsNoEditor\GAME\Content\Paks\GAME-WindowsNoEditor.pak -create=C:\dev\UE4.8\Engine\Programs\AutomationTool\Saved\Logs\PakList_GAME-WindowsNoEditor.txt -order=C:\dev\UE4.8\GAME\Build\WindowsNoEditor\FileOpenOrder\EditorOpenOrder.log

As UnrealPak is running, I can see it creating the .pak file in windows explorer and the file size getting larger as it runs. Then at the end, when it looks like it’s finished, it seems like it tries to copy the file over itself or something.

Has anyone any idea whats going on?

Thanks,

Matt

I believe I found what the problem was. In the ‘Name of the new release to create’ section on the project launcher I was putting the name of our game, rather than a version number, so the name of the generated .pak files were the same.