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  • Published 13 Jan 2024

Make 'find missing files' faster pls

is it written in python? compared to other software, it is desperately slow :(

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shq
13 Jan 2024

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Can you specify what do you mean? It works fine in my PC...

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shq Author

for example when I have large scene with over 9000 textures and xrefs linked in and then I move or rename some folders , its painful process, which takes me days (I'm not kidding) to relink all these files - blender freezes for dozens of minutes while searching missing files, while for example after effects, resolve, maya, its matter of seconds. for some reason now on blender 4.0.2, it refuses find several files in directory which I directly point him into..i cant even filter the objects with missing textures in outliner. aargh

How the hell you have 9k img textures? haha In any case, In blender you press external data==> Find missing textures ==> You select the folder and it selects all the textures automatically and it plugs them correctly. I just did it (I even tried it with only selecting the desktop folder where I have a lot of folders and worked correctly too) . That doesn't work for you?

shq Author

thats what is this about..

But I don't understand then; what's your proposal? I don't get what's wrong with the current method

Magnus

I use "Everything" from Voidtools. Very fast and useable - I wish too that the search could be faster in Blender but for now Blender is a 3D-Program not a File Index Databank. Here the link for the Search-Tool: voidtools.com