Changed Section Size of Landscape, Editor Crashed, Project Won't Open

I have a decently large open world environment, and I attempted to change the section size of the landscape from 255x255 to 127x127. The editor showed a progress bar for a bit, and then it froze. After several minutes it crashed with an error saying I had too little graphics memory. Now the project won’t reopen.

What I’ve tried:
replacing the map and builtdata with an autobackup from yesterday when it worked fine.
removing the uasset files associated with the map and trying to simply load just the map.
crying

will post crash report upon request but I’m pretty sure the cause is clear. Just don’t know what happened as a result of it.