How can I get rid of these extra materials (inside the red rectangle) inside this dropdown window? Is there a way? They are not being used on any object in this file.
Thanks for any pointers
You don’t really have to, because Blender will automatically delete unused materials when you save the file.
But if you really like to be organized all along, you can delete materials from the Outliner. Display Orphan Data, and look under Materials, where you can select any unused one and delete it.
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Thanks piranha4D…I will try that from the outliner. I have saved this file many times but those materials have remained. I appreciate your replying.
There’s also FILE menu > Clean Up > Recursive Unused Data-Blocks.
I keep the whole Clean Up menu in my Quick Favorites.
None of these options are working. I did both but when selecting Orphan Data (the broken heart, it doesn’t show any materials.
And nothing happens when doing the Clean Up. Probably I am doing something wrong.
Never had this happen before
I found the solution! I select the material from the dropdown that I want to remove and Shift+Left-click on the X at the right that will orphan the material. That material now has the 0 to the left of it’s name meaning it is not assigned to anything. Then I can save and reload the file and that then cleared out all materials with the zero “0” to the left.
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