I accidentally dragged a folder and dropped it on itself in the project window. Unity went into an infinite loop and I had to force quit, after which I couldn’t open the project again because Unity would display the familiar “Hold on. Compiling scripts” message and go no further.
In windows explorer I saw that the folder had been recursively created a few hundred times so I tried to delete (not put in recycle bin) the top-most folder but Windows told me that the file name was too long and couldn’t be moved to the desired location…
I got around this by shredding the folder with AVG but I still get the “Compiling scripts” message and can’t open the project.
Does anyone know how/if I can get this project back in working order?
Yikes, sounds like an awful thing to go through =(
It’s a bit of a long-shot, but you could try deleting your Library folder in your project then open the project (the library folder will rebuild itself). Best of luck!