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Venge
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Posted: 8th Jun 2008 02:53
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Just downloaded the latest version of Blender. It installed in the same directory as the older version, which wrote over my projects folder that contained everything I've ever made with Blender...Ever. Silly me, thought a System Restore would fix things. It restored all the folders...Empty. So I download another file restore program, but Windows has already rewritten almost all the files. There are only a few left, and they won't open with Blender, something about corruption.

I guess it was time to start over.

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Deathead
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Posted: 8th Jun 2008 02:55 Edited at: 8th Jun 2008 02:55
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uh-huh? Blender shouldn't save over .blend files, unless you download the .zip package. And placed it manually.


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Venge
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I don't know what it did, just that I installed it, went to my Blender folder, and it had only the files that Blender installed and none of my old folders.

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Osiris
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Posted: 8th Jun 2008 03:09
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Check other places it might be, like another blender folder inside the other one, or my documents, it could have moved them.

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Sid Sinister
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Do a windows search for any *.blend files. That should find them all if they are still there. Be sure to include the * before the .blend. That symbol is a wildcard and will find all files with that extension. Also maybe try searching for the file name of one of your models.

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RalphY
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Posted: 8th Jun 2008 16:04
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Yeah that's odd, I keep all my Blender files inside a projects folder in the Blender directory and have installed new versions over it many times without problems. Major sucks if there all gone for good. Don't you have a backup of them anywhere?

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Venge
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Posted: 8th Jun 2008 16:21
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I've gone through a few versions of Blender before as well and never had this problem, I don't know why this one did it any differently.

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 8th Jun 2008 21:36
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Or if worse comes to worse, try a file recovery program, there should be one in Glary's utilities, I've not tried it, but I'd assume if you did a search to undelete those files with it then you might be able to recover them.

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tha_rami
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Posted: 8th Jun 2008 23:52
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The undelete option works if your PC hasn't done a lot of activity. Otherwise, te stuff will most likely have been overwritten.


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