Editor crashing when trying to select an animation blueprint

every time I try to select the drop down menu from the viewport to change my skeletal meshes animation blueprint the editor crashes leaving me unable to change it, now my enemies are stuck in T position with no way of changing them.
Help please.

Try replacing the file outside editor with one in the backup folder document /ue4 projects/ name of project /
/backups and select the anim bp and copy and replace
Save the replaced file somewher else b4

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Thanks

though this works, the ideal answer is for the problem to be patched by the unreal engine devs.