Introduction

The options to manage files are:

New

Clears the current scene and loads startup.blend

Open

Open a blend file

Open Recent

Displays a list of recently saved .blend files to open

Recover last session

This will load the quit.blend file Blender automatically saves just before exiting. So this option enables you to recover your last work session, e.g. if you closed Blender by accident

Recover Auto Save

This will open an automatically saved file to recover it.

Save

Save the current blend file.

Save As

Opens file browser to specify file name and ___location of save.

Save Copy

Saves a copy of the current file.

User Preferences

Opens the user preferences dialog.

Save User Settings

Saves the current scene and preferences to startup.blend.

Load Factory Settings

Restore the default scene to the factory settings.

Link or Append

You don’t have to load a complete file, you can load in only selected parts from another file if you wish.

Import

Blender can use information stored in a variety of other format files which are created by other graphics programs.

Export

Normally you save your work in a .blend file, but you can export some or all of your work to a format that can be processed by other graphics programs.

External Data

Pack into .blend

Pack all used external files into the .blend

Unpack into Files

Unpack all files packed into this .blend to external ones

Make all paths Relative

Make all paths to external files relative to current .blend

Make all paths Absolute

Make all paths to external files absolute

Report Missing Files

Report all missing external files

Find Missing Files

Try to find missing external files