Hello
When I open the “Cube Diorama” and “Ellie Pose Library” demo files, Blender 3.0.0 opens an empty file.
(These files are compressed with the ZStandard algorithm)
jmv
I thought it was a file problem.
But:
If I double-click on the file from Windows 10 Explorer, Blender 3.0.0 opens an empty file.
If I start Blender and open the same file with File -> Open, the file opens correctly.
That could be a file path issue. If there is unicode characters in the name or path.
Also some applications which originated from Linux , when creating folders on windows, they bypass the native windows API and do direct access to hard disk or something …
and if they use spaces at the ends of folders name , windows will not be able to properly handle that folder . You can’t even rename or delete them from gui
Did you extract the file from an archive ? what program did you use ?
Hello
@myway880, after several tests I’m sure it’s not a file path problem.
Blender tries to open the file and displays the message in the system console:
“Error: The file format is not supported”
@ldo , it is possible that this is a problem with Windows.
“File → Open” works.
And I tried the command line with PowerShell, CMD and git-bash, it works too.
I really do not know.
Is there a chance that these are not the same version of Blender? As in you launch 3.0 and then you can open the the files fine. But double-clicking a blend document in the OS file system actually launches 2.93?
No worries. New in 3.0: Go to Edit / Preferences / System / Operating System Settings and click on “Make Default” - if you are running Windows. That will make it so that clicking on a blend document will open in that blender installation.
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