Empty project on load

trying to load a project that I’m working on with a group of people, unfortunately it isn’t working, when I try to load the project i get the error message as follows.

Failed to load map!
…/…/…/…/…/…/Users/Gaming/Desktop/Binary-Path-master/Content/TopDownBP/Maps/TopDownExampleMap.umap appears to be an asset file.

After selecting ok the project then loads with all of the folders but nothing in them.

nobody else is having this issue it’s just me tried a few things such as redownloading Unreal and the project but nothing has worked thus far.

It’s really important that i can get this to work so I can help my team and I would appreciate the help, Thank you.

Did everyone work in same version? Can you check version number?

Version was the first thing I checked, even before I realised there was a problem and again confirmed it afterwards

problem of relative and absolute path maybe?

how does one solve this issue?