[Bf-committers] Ghostlike datablocks

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

No (Jeremy) it doesn't work that way.

Blender hardly frees data when "delete", instead it unlinks data. All  
data that has links then still is written in a Blender file.

Sometimes, such links still exist (can be a tree with many brances).  
The unlink options in Blender don't fully check entire trees, instead  
it reconstructs trees on a file read.
The way to get rid of these Meshes is just by 2 save/load cycles. Not  
with Blender quitting inbetween!

(In your case, when you delete a Scene for example, all Objects being  
used by the scene get one 'user reference' less. But the data linked to  
Objects itself remains.)

-Ton-


On Sunday, May 9, 2004, at 20:55 Europe/Amsterdam,  
jeremy@marzhillstudios.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Being one of those who pokes around the oops code. You can probably
> select the meshes there and then delete them in the 3d view. What's
> selected in Oops should be selected in 3d view. I don't know for sure
> if that will work but you might give it a try.
>
> On 9 May 2004 at 7:51, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>  I've got a problem and found no way to solve it so it may be a bug.
>>
>>  I had a *.blend file with one SCENE.
>>
>>  Then I added (SHIFT F1) a second scene from another file.
>>
>>  Then I deleted this scene (it was the wrong one).
>>
>>  Now I have tons of "wild" meshes with nothing is linked to. They only
>>  increase the size of the file.
>>
>>  A save-quit-restart-reload cycle does not help.
>>
>>  In the OOPS window those meshes (scene datablocks) are drawn with
>>  background color of the OOPS window (or one could say "without" any
>>  extra background color). All "real" meshes do have a background
>>  color.
>>
>>  Nor more used materials get kicked out of the file after a
>>  save-reload. This seems not to be true for mesh datablocks.
>>
>>  I found no way to delete them neither by experimenting nor by
>>  searching the 2.3 book.
>>
>>  Any hint? If no, then it is a bug... ;)
>>
>>  Kind rrgards,
>>  Meino
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