A UE4 newbie here. At the worst you could consider migrating your assets to another project?
Perhaps you can try packaging the UE4 blank project before migrating to see if your packaging function works?
thats a great idea, I will try that if I have time when I come home. Im confident there is an issue with the project because my friend was nice enough to stay up late to download it and he couldnt package it either.
