Auto-Save failing, pulling old saves and blocks users from continuing

Reporting an issue where are users are getting prompted to auto-save, but then it appears to fail and asks them to manually save. They're being prompted with outdated save files, but get stuck in a loop where they don't want to save since the files are old.

This issue is one of the top-voted topics in the feedback forums.

Community report:

Hello all, been working with UE4 since it was set free. Autosaves have been a great asset in my development, especially when testing things that may push the system to its limits.

Recently with the release of 5.0 proper, I noticed a repeatable bug, or maybe feature? When the editor goes to autosave, SOMETIMES it fails or gets interrupted and then when I do a “save all” I get the below popup.
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At first I couldn’t figure out what was going on because the map I’m working on is indeed saved and if I make a change, save, and reload it, the changes do save. So I go to the menu pictured below…
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And I get this screen,
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Basically it looks like it failed to save the autosave from, I don’t even know how long ago, and it wants me to save it manually? But… I don’t know how old it is so I just want to “get rid” of the autosave since it’s not relevant anymore.

I can’t dismiss this popup window whenever I do a “save all”, and I do a “save all” every time my fingers flow over the left side of the keyboard (CTRL+ SHIFT + S) so I end up with this popup multiple times a minute once this bug/feature happens. The only solution I have found is to close the whole editor and launch it again. Changing maps or anything else I’ve found inside the editor still prompts me every “save all” to save the autosave? Sounds silly to me, because this never happened prior to 5.0 proper.

Source of issues:
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/autosave-bug-feature/540649/20
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/prompted-to-save-autosave-levels-as-actual-new-levels/551334

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