Appending (Shift - F1) does not work

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Hello,

I have a bird and his feather wings are in another file (I made them separately).

I have tried to press Shift-F1 to append, then clicked on various combination of “Insert at current layer”, “Place on cursor”, etc, but to no avail. The imported file is nowhere to be seen.

Also, I opened up an Outliner tree structure and the imported object (Sphere003) is nowhere to be seen. The scene does not contain many things so I dont think Im missing it there.

Both files were made today on the same computer with Blender 2.49 .

I suppose Im missing something (again!), right ?

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What were you trying to append. You should browse to the Object file in the blend file. Do not select the mesh, you need to select the object

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Oh that did it !
I was selecting the mesh.
Selecting the object did it.

Thanks a bunch I ve been breaking my head for an hour