What happens when I open a new Blender file?
By default, when exiting Blender or loading a new blend-file, if you have unsaved changes, a pop-up will ask you to either confirm discarding those changes, or save them. This behavior can be disabled with the Save Prompt option in the Save & Load section of the Preferences. File ‣ Open…
How to make Blender confirm closing an unsaved file?
The current versions have some limited modification checking for windows but not other platforms.
Why does my Blender save so much time?
When enabled, the saved file will be smaller, but take longer to save and load. While compression is useful for distributing files online and saving drive space for large projects it has drawbacks too. This option may slow down Blender when you quit, or under normal operation when Blender is saving your backup files.
What should I do if my Blender crashes?
Try opening a new project, click File -> Append, and add the objects from your corrupt file chunk by chunk or piece by piece. This way you can narrow down, if or which single object causes Blender to crash.
Where do I find the previous version of Blender?
Those .blend1 and .blend2 files are the previous versions. To open them from Blender, go to File > Open and enable the backups filter: When you open one of those, you’ll get the previous version of that file and you can safely re-save it over the main version like it was before.
How can I re-save files from Blender?
To open them from Blender, go to File > Open and enable the backups filter: When you open one of those, you’ll get the previous version of that file and you can safely re-save it over the main version like it was before.
How do I save a blender file to my hard drive?
There are a number of slightly different methods you can use to save your blend-file to your hard drive: Save Ctrl-S, Ctrl-W. Save an existing blend-file over itself. Save As Shift-Ctrl-S, F2. Choose a file to save the blend-file to. Save Copy Ctrl-Alt-S.
How to recover data from auto save in Blender?
In such a case, you can use the “Last session” option instead of “Auto save…”. Blender will then recover the “quit.blend” file from the path above that was saved on the last graceful exit of the application. We have now learned about settings, saving and recovering data.