Where Have All My Saved Files Gone - Blender Artists Community Home » Where Are Blender Files Saved » Where Have All My Saved Files Gone - Blender Artists Community Maybe your like Where Are Brunt Boots Made Where Are Buxton Wallets Made Where Are Cannondale Bikes Made Where Are Carolina Boots Made Where Are Chiquita Bananas Grown Loading where have all my saved files gone ? Support Basics & Interface bro.steve77 (bro.steve77) February 16, 2012, 8:26pm 1 I took everyones advice , save, save, save, and went to work on some saved projects, that i had left untouched about 1 week while working on others and could not find any of my saved work . i combed my computer and all i found were 155 pics of the top of susannes head, which i deleated, is that the monkeys name? that was in a file for windows photo gallery. i hope my work still exists somewhere and wasnt lost for good. i hope its just a simple thing im doing wrong. does anyone have any suggestions ? can any one help me? thanks so much, bro.steve bro.steve77 (bro.steve77) February 17, 2012, 8:59am 2 I know i ask for alot of help, i read alot of toutorials , i cant see the video tuts. because of my slow internet speed , It just seems my work is in vain, if my saved projects dissapear off into cyber space. please help, thanks stvndysn (stvndysn) February 17, 2012, 10:47am 3 hey steve from another steve when you click open recent do you see any files listed? if you click open do you see any files in the directory? maybe check your tmp files bro.steve77 (bro.steve77) February 17, 2012, 11:33am 4 Steve, when i click on open recent, thats all i get, most recent, i went into user prefs. and i expanded the open recent to show 15 recent files on opening, but that didnt help with what ive already lost track of. ive opened files and spent much time trying to track these 4 files down, in blender & in my computer. the only files that show up are the most recent. when i am working on a blend, if im not happy with it, i sometimes deleat the work. Would this also deleate the save i started with & file.? it didnt seem to before & always kept the last save. any more suggestions ? thanks alot Richard_Marklew (Richard Marklew) February 17, 2012, 12:06pm 5 I don’t see how anyone but yourself can find files on your computer. You must know the name of the file or do a search for .blend. In your operating system enable hidden files to be visible. Reset blender to factory defaults and save the default blend file. This will be the default location for saving files. Are they there ? If not you saved them in some non default location. Take this as a lesson to learn what a folder is and save them somewhere you can remember, desktop, my documents, wherever. bro.steve77 (bro.steve77) February 17, 2012, 1:40pm 6 thanks for your help, Richard. i did a search on .blend, only the new stuff showed up. i also set blender to factory defaults and saved the file. as far as i can see, all that early work is gone. I dont think i had anything destined for the gallery lost. They say we learn from our mistakes, i learned to create files and put the work in them. very good advice. some times this program makes me feel like a monkey trying to fly a spaceship. i have only about 1 year total computer experience, I WILL LEARN . thanks Richard, thanks Steve kazinger (kazinger) February 17, 2012, 4:59pm 7 They are still there somewhere. are you using windows? Look my computer / local disk ( everything is here )/ temp. Or maybe it is in the same folder as your blender build ( right click desktop icon click properties target should tell you where you left blender) . I also have a slow internet connection. 3 k /second , If you need a tutorial I know where the small ones are. Your computer is not that big you can find your files. bro.steve77 (bro.steve77) February 17, 2012, 7:34pm 8 Thanks Kazinger, your right above all i should keep the faith. i will keep looking & try your suggestions. please let me know where i can find those smaller tuts. thanks so much, bro.steve bro.steve77 (bro.steve77) February 17, 2012, 8:46pm 9 i just found a png ? image of a file i lost, in local disc c/ tmp. i tried to open it in blender an get it back where it belongs but it would not open, it also does not show up in blender file for tmp. i also tried to copy & paste it in blender but i guess that would be to easy, didnt work. i have a feeling it somehow was converted into the wrong type of image png. for blender. i am still trying to learn the different types of images and how to use them. bro.steve kazinger (kazinger) February 18, 2012, 10:02am 10 Blender is a program you cant put a png there. I made a folder in my documents a and put my images there . I call it textures( png jpg ). when you make a model in blender you ad a texture to it Blender finds the texture where ever it is ( because it remembers even if you forgot). So make a folder somewhere like my documents( new folder ) name it ( Blender stuff ). when you save as is . You get then your saving options. Click the c , users, documents, blender stuff. then click add ( below) to make a short cut. blend folder.jpg898×500 65 KB Attachments bro.steve77 (bro.steve77) February 18, 2012, 11:24am 11 I tell you what Kazinger, i now have my 1st, very own blender file {blender stuff} . You might think this a little thing, not to me, this is the first file i have ever created- intentionaly , created plenty of empty file folders by mistake, but i never new what the heck i was doing until now. i tried it out & put a couple of extruded boxes into it , it works great! i have been always counting on computer saves, and file placement until now . and as i said before , i am new to the computer & to computer graphics but decided i wanted to learn, hopefully to make my job easier which is conventional graphics, design, murals & signs, when i saw what one could do in blender, i was in awe. thanks for your much needed help . ps. please let me know where i can get those tutorials .thanks bro steve Tag » Where Are Blender Files Saved Saving Files — Blender Manual File Paths — Blender Manual Opening & Saving — Blender Manual Recovering Data — Blender Manual Where Are .blend Files Saved? - Blender Stack Exchange Blender, Saving And Recovering: Don't Lose Your Work Ever Again Beginners Blender 3D: Tutorial 3 - Saving Your Work (2.78 HD ... 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