blend1

Save Blender backup files to a different location than opened blend, with an easily accessible recall. Enhances cloud storage experience.

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Table of Contents

• About
• Getting Started
  • Prerequisites
  • Installation
    • Blender 4.2 or newer
    • Blender 4.1 or older
      • Download the ZIP
      • Install ZIP in Blender
    • Updating
• Usage
• Roadmap
• Support
• Project assistance
• Contributing
• License

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About

The inbuilt backup mechanism in Blender saves .blend1, .blend2, ... files next to the original. If you are using Google Drive, OneDrive, Samba, NFS or other cloud or remote mounted filesystem, this can be very wasteful. You will end up uploading .blend1 as well as the original when you hit CTRL+S. If you use more than 1 backup version you will end up with a ton of uploads every time you save your project!

At polygoniq we use Google Drive for all our customer projects. And even though we have a very fast internet connection we ended up saturating it with all the backup uploads. That's why we decided to create this addon. We have only the main .blend stored on Google Drive while we save backups locally. That way backups are available in case something goes wrong and at the same time uploads are fast and collaborating on large blends over Google Drive is possible.

Screenshots

Addon Panel	Recall Backup

Backup Folder	Inside a Backup Folder

Getting Started

Prerequisites

You need Blender 3.3 LTS or higher. Windows, macOS 10 and Linux are supported.

Installation

Blender 4.2 or newer

Visit polygoniq extensions repository, where we explain how to set it up as remote repository so you can install and update everything from Blender.

Blender 4.1 or older

Download the ZIP

Stable Release	Unstable Master Branch
Head over to Releases for a stable ZIP.	Click Code -> Download ZIP if you are feeling adventurous.

Install ZIP in Blender

Go to Edit -> Preferences. And select Add-ons in the left bar. Click the Install... button in the top section. Select the ZIP file you just downloaded and click Install Add-on. After the installation finishes, check the checkbox next to the blend1 addon.

Updating

The addon can auto-update itself to latest stable or even unstable master version. Head over to Edit -> Preferences and select Add-ons in the left bar. Type blend1 into the search bar and then expand the addon section of blend1. Scroll down to the auto update section to set up update intervals or even update manually.

Usage

Set up the Save versions to the desired number of backups of your work. Work in Blender as usual. If you need to recall a backup, open the N menu and look for the blend1 panel. Use the Recall operator to recall a backup.

Roadmap

See the open issues for a list of proposed features (and known issues).

• Top Feature Requests (Add your votes using the 👍 reaction)
• Top Bugs (Add your votes using the 👍 reaction)
• Newest Bugs

Support

Reach out to the maintainers at one of the following places:

• Joining our Discord community for the fastest support.
• GitHub issues
• Contact options listed on this GitHub profile

Project assistance

If you want to say thank you or/and support active development of blend1:

• Add a GitHub Star to the project.
• Tweet about blend1.

Together, we can make blend1 better!

Contributing

First of, thanks for taking the time to contribute! Contributions are what make the open-source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make will benefit everybody else and are greatly appreciated.

Please read our contribution guidelines, and thank you for being involved!

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.

See LICENSE for more information.