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  • Published 3 Feb 2023

link refresh

new to Blendor. Why can you not just right click on an linked object to refresh, it does have unlink option. instead you have to go to switch outliner to "blendor file" mode, scroll to find object, then right click to refresh.

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rich2
3 Feb 2023

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Lauloque

Maybe I am wrong, but I guess the logic behind it is that what you see in Blend File mode represents the actual link to the file, whereas what you see in Scene / View Layer is an object that happen to use the data from the link.
So maybe They decided to not have direct controls to the linked file from the object users to avoid confusions or something?

I guess following your feature request would look something like this:

proposal mockup

Or at least have a "Jump To Link" operator that would set the outliner to Blend File mode, jump to the link and select it.