Hi, I was trying to use the material utils addon and it made a mess of the materials in my scene (good thing I had just begun). I’m using blender 2.56.3 and 2.56.5 on mac, did anyone experience problems with material utils? Basically I’m getting materials duplicated each time I try to add a material to an object, so the list of materials in the Q->pop up menu gets huge.
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I wrote that add-on and it is indeed misbehaving due to Api changes.
It still works, but quickly becomes a mess with all the extra materials.
I haven’t found the problem yet but am investigating…i’m also fixing the issue with text and curve objects…
That’s great, that add on is really useful 
Found the problem!
will update it soon!
Ok, all fixed and updated in trunk!
I alos added the ability to use this on non mesh objects (metaballs, curves, text etc) and the “select by material” option now only offers a list of used materials rather than all the materials in the scene.
extra thanks for the effort 