Odd Error after transferring files (Windows/Linux)

Ok I’m reasonably new to Blender (less than a year), but I felt fairly confident that I understood the basics of texture mapping. I’ve had no issues like this crop up until very recently, and I would like to eliminate potential causes.

I use Blender at work; 2.43. It is in an Windows XP box. I had been (until recently) running an XP box at home, with 2.43 as well. I very recently switched to Fedora Core 6. I am very unfamiliar with Linux, so please forgive any misunderstandings I may have with it. I am currently running 2.42 as that is what is available through the Yum updater, and honestly can’t figure out how to upgrade (don’t laugh). I’ve included two renders, one from work about 4 hours ago and one from home after uncompressing the WinZIP copy of the exact same file.

I have not had this issue in the past, although in the past I’ve been able to use WinRAR. Very recently WinRAR files have been throwing up ‘unrecoverable virus’ errors from Hotmail, the mail service I have been using, so I switched to WinZIP. Notably, the exact same files compressed in WinZIP leave no error (I blame Micro$oft) or virus warning (We use the same program, TrendMicro, at work and I can’t find a virus in the file). Nevertheless, the result is perplexing. It is as though the entire UV map set has been deleted (All maps are gone from all of the objects).

Any suggestions/ideas?

Thank you,
Sean

it looks like the UV mapping has gotten screwed up in the transfer

check the UV editor window - looks like your textures are mapped to each face

I’ve tested the same WinZIP unpack on my wife’s XP machine, although in Blender 2.43. I’ve also tried sending a direct .blend file which did not work.

Doing some further testing has yielded some interesting results: ALL of the UV maps in every .blend file I have has been lost; even ones I transferred via CD-Rom from my XP system. Has anyone else using Linux experienced this? As I stated, I am very new to Linux, and so if there is a path/location error causing this I would like some advice on how to correct it.

I do have embedded spaces in some of my paths, although not in the file set when I showed the initial problem, so I cannot see this as the root of the problem.

Thank you