Default automatically blender pack file.
Making automatically pack ask external files into the .blender file a default. It will make things easier for me users so they will not get errors of missing textures and such. People who don't want that will be able to unmark it.
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Except nobody should ever want that, especially new users!
Packing everything makes every file save longer, every blend file management longer, every blend file heavier, makes unnecessary writes on your drive all the time which is a killer move for SSDs, and makes duplicated data.
The reason this feature exists in the first place is only in order to share a file outside its environment, and it's not even the best solution. Packing everything into a zip file is way better in terms of file preservation and efficiency.
At least when experienced user ask for this kind of auto-packing, they know it happens, they know the risks, and they know what they are doing and how to work with it.
But new users? They will just see gigabytes in their blend files and spend five minutes waiting for a file save to finish.
All this is quite a big overkill solution just to prevent unwanted missing data, especially compared to the current solution: user awareness.
Thanks for the explanation. I was using that option, because I was working on a friend's computer from my home and it saved it fast.
Do you know about a way to work on Blender from a far away computer, without moving files from one computer to another?
Work on a shared network.