Problem to open a compress Windows Blender file in a Linux

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I made an animation in the Windows System with Blender 2.43R2.

I compressed this file and I tryed to open in the Ubuntu Linux in the same Blender 2.43R2.

But the Blender inform that this file is wrong ( … failed: File is not a Blender file ).

What is wrong ?

2

Make a copy of the file, then see if this works:

Extract the .blend file to “filename.blend”
Choose the correct compression, if you’re using Ark, it should automatically be selected for you.

Then try to open the file.

3

It depends on which of two compression schemes Windows used.

If your file was compressed to a .zip file:

  1. Start a command shell
  2. cd to the directory where you put the compressed blend file (it might be named something like “myfile.blend.zip”)
  3. Enter the command unzip myfile.blend.zip.

If it is NTFS compression (the filename does not end in .zip)
Then you are out of luck, I think. I know there are people working on NTFS data in linux, but Microsoft is not helping them at all so the pickings are currently fairly slim. Go back to windows and get a copy of the file uncompressed and copy that to linux.

Hope this helps.

4

Sorry.

I compress using a Blender command.

File -> Compress File

OK

5

Ah, I had never noticed that feature before. So you selected ‘enable file compression’ on your Linux blender and then opened the file without any trouble, right?

6

Blender compresses the file with gzip compression inside a .blend file. If you still can’t get it to work after you try the previous method, try the way I said. :wink: