Blender 4.0

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Hi,

I made a mistake after installing Blender 4.0. I forgot to hit "Load Settings" from my previous version. My first attempt to fix this was to uninstall the new version (4.0) and install it again, but it didn't work—the option to "Load Settings" didn't show up again. So, I searched and found that copying the userpref.blend file to my new Blender version should transfer all my preferences. However, that didn't work either.

Do you have any other suggestions? Is there really no way to recover my settings?

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  • Martin Bergwerf replied

    Hi Roxana,

    Copying the userpref.blend from 3.6 to 4.0 should actually work...Make sure to first remove (or even better, move it to another folder, or rename it, to for instance userpref_BAK.blend) the userpref.blend from 4.0 that is already there.

  • Roxana Moise-Dan(ox) replied

    Hi,

    Thanks for your answer. It worked (!), but now I have some issues with my Add-ons. I get "missinf script files".

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  • Martin Bergwerf replied

    This page https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/4.0/advanced/blender_directory_layout.html

    shows, among others, where Blender stores the Addons for different Operating Systems.

    You can Copy them from 3.6 to 4.0, but probably not all Addons will work out of the box with 4.0, some might need to be updated.

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  • Roxana Moise-Dan(ox) replied

    Thank you! I will try and see if it works :)

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  • Dwayne Savage(dillenbata3) replied

    If you go into the user folder for blender and delete the 4.0 folder. When you start blender it will give you the splash screen with the option to copy settings. This will also copy over any addons, startup. configuration, application templates, and preferences that you have for 3.6. unless you want to do it manually. 

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  • Roxana Moise-Dan(ox) replied

    Thank you!!

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  • thehomme replied

    Now 4.0 is officially released should I upgrade? The only non native add-on I've added is UV Squares

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  • Dwayne Savage(dillenbata3) replied

    thehomme it depends. There are a lot of hotkeys, and UI changes in 4.0. which means some frustration when having to figure out name changes, new location of some options and figuring out new hotkeys. 

  • thehomme replied

    I'm guessing if I'm still new better to switch now rather than later then?

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