Dear All, I have ended up helping my son (11years) with getting started to Blender (and got a bit interested as well). What happened was that my son produced one of the first really successful models with Blender. A very nice space view with planets UFO and very nice layout. Then he complained that blender refuses to save the work. I tried to help, and after a few times of trying to save, the program crashed. I quess i dont need to tell you that the young boy was more than sad. But this was not all. After this crash the blender doesn’t start anymore. I tried to install a new version (2,43a), but that won’t start any better. Then I cleaned the registry of Windows (I use XP service pack 2), and tried again. Still no luck.
So I would like to know whether anyone has experienced a similar situation, and whether you have any suggestion what to try next. I really hate the idea of cleaning the hard disk and starting from installation of Windows and everything on top of that again.
I’m not sure about Blender not starting, but you may very well be able to get back some of your sons work. Look in C: mp. If you see a file named something like 1503.blend, it is a backup of the file that was last worked on. It may not have everything, but is should have most of the work.
Dear Be Braw: here’s what is printed after command line start-up
“C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender>blender
Compiled with Python version 2.4.
‘import site’ failed; use -v for traceback
Warning: could not determine argv[0] path
Checking for installed Python… No installed Python found.
Only built-in modules are available. Some scripts may not run.
Continuing happily.
C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender.blender\icons: No such file or dire
ctory”
If this leads to any ideas what to correct i would be more than thankful…
A new release should come out soon (in a week or two), the issue may be resolved in it. You could even try the RC2 version that will be released soon. Though the Windows build seems to be available already at http://download.blender.org/release/Blender2.43rc/ . Give it a go. Although in case it works, I recommend upgrading to 2.43 after it is released.
Despite command line information I still don’t see why it shouldn’t work.
Try this. Download the ZIPped version, unzip it to a single directory – like c:\blender. Then go into a command prompt and try starting it again from that directory.
If that doesn’t work try searching your documents folder or entire hard drive for a B.blend file. If you find it, delete it, then try restarting Blender.
I have the same problem here but I conuldn’t run Blender even once…
I tried 4.42 and 4.43RC in installation and zip files
here is the command prompt when I run in debug mode:
Blender V 2.42
argv[0] = blender
argv[1] = -d
Compiled with Python version 2.4.
‘import site’ failed; use -v for traceback
Warning: could not determine argv[0] path
Checking for installed Python… No installed Python found.
Only built-in modules are available. Some scripts may not run.
Continuing happily.
Color depth r 8 g 8 b 8
Aux buffers: 0
ordered
OBCube
OBLamp
OBCamera
Registering scripts in Blender menus …
Getting menu data for scripts from file:
C:\blender-2.42a-windows.blender\Bpymenus
HERE IT CRASHES [and in my case, Visual Studio wants to debug it :)]
Here is my specs:
P4 1.7
512MB RAM
ATI Radeon 9250
WinXP SP2