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I tried to upload a 3.0 version blend file into blend-exchange and got the message "All uploaded files must be in the blend file format". It appears to not recognize post 2.93 file formats.

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    $\begingroup$ You should probably ask in Blender Meta $\endgroup$
    – Emir
    Dec 5, 2021 at 2:07
  • $\begingroup$ @Emir I'm guessing that Meta is some insider-known website of which I'm not familiar. Do you have a link where I can Q&A my problem ? $\endgroup$
    – james_t
    Dec 5, 2021 at 2:34
  • $\begingroup$ @Emir thanks for your help on this ! $\endgroup$
    – james_t
    Dec 5, 2021 at 2:44
  • $\begingroup$ @Timaroberts -- suggest to try again after cache cleaning perhaps. What "cache" are you referring to? Cookies? I just tried again with a simple 3.0 file and still no love. $\endgroup$
    – james_t
    Dec 5, 2021 at 18:26
  • $\begingroup$ What happens if you try with another Browser? $\endgroup$
    – Emir
    Dec 6, 2021 at 12:38
  • $\begingroup$ Great ... I thought I'm the only one :) github.com/GiantCowFilms/Blend-Exchange/issues/… $\endgroup$
    – vklidu
    Feb 6, 2022 at 18:12

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I've disabled blend file validation for now, resolving this issue. See https://github.com/GiantCowFilms/Blend-Exchange/issues/56 for details.

If someone is handy with PHP and wants to take a crack at handling the new blend file format changes, I'd love a community contribution. It will probably be a little while before I can do this work myself.

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  • $\begingroup$ Yet again today, it was not accepting my files :-( $\endgroup$
    – james_t
    May 26, 2022 at 20:20
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I just encountered this error when trying to upload a compressed file from the question Geonodes: when creating an instance, get index from instancer

Turning off compression solved the issue.

Just tried again with the compressed file:

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  • $\begingroup$ compressed as by an external program like winzip? has that ever worked? $\endgroup$
    – Marty Fouts
    Dec 14, 2021 at 17:57
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    $\begingroup$ @MartyFouts compressed as in the setting in the save dialog, which I always used to save space on the server: i.imgur.com/EchlR84.png $\endgroup$
    – Markus von Broady
    Dec 14, 2021 at 18:32
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    $\begingroup$ The developers changed the compression algorithm for 3.0 blend-exchange needs an update to be able to handle the new compression algorithm. Perhaps @GiantCowFilms is already working on it. $\endgroup$
    – Marty Fouts
    Dec 15, 2021 at 14:34
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    $\begingroup$ Thanks for info! I am going to try and get a fix out for this as soon as I can (my life is pretty hectic right now). If someone wants to take a shot at this I am also happy to accept a pull request. $\endgroup$
    – GiantCowFilms
    Feb 4, 2022 at 19:28
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    $\begingroup$ Thanks Markus ... great to know :) $\endgroup$
    – vklidu
    Feb 6, 2022 at 18:13
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    $\begingroup$ @GiantCowFilms Thank you for looking into this once you are able to. Blend-Exchange is indispensable to us. :-) $\endgroup$
    – Mentalist
    Mar 4, 2022 at 1:24
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As of this afternoon, I was able to upload a 3.0 file, using Chrome on Windows 10. I then went to the Blend-Exchange github repository and verified that there was no change made. Glancing at the source, it looks like Blend-Exchange does very minimal checking to see if a file is really a blend file; so I suspect you ran into a server internal glitch that got reported incorrectly.

Are you still having the problem? If so, I recommend filling out their Help request.

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  • $\begingroup$ Thanks Marty am going to enter a request. Can upload only pre-3.0 files, same in Firefox and Chrome on Win-10. $\endgroup$
    – james_t
    Dec 7, 2021 at 17:43
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    $\begingroup$ Okay while filing a request I just got "There was an error trying to send your message. Please try again later.". I'm chucking and not going to pull my hair out. Ah it worked the second time I tried. Whew! $\endgroup$
    – james_t
    Dec 7, 2021 at 17:46
  • $\begingroup$ That's very weird. Basically all they do is look at the header to see if it looks like a blender file, so I don't know why you're getting errors. $\endgroup$
    – Marty Fouts
    Dec 7, 2021 at 17:50
  • $\begingroup$ It just started working for 3.0 files for me now, perhaps about 30 minutes after I posted the problem report. Perhaps coincidental -- don't know . $\endgroup$
    – james_t
    Dec 7, 2021 at 19:08
  • $\begingroup$ @james_t Were you able to successfully upload the file? I'm guessing this may have been a temporary issue (The 26mb file size might have been a bit much for my server). When I have some free time I will take a look and see if I can figure out what went wrong. $\endgroup$
    – GiantCowFilms
    Dec 7, 2021 at 20:12
  • $\begingroup$ @GiantCowFilms -- thanks for maintaining this for us! I had also tried with an almost empty startup file 0.1 Mb and had failures. Thankfully it cleared for me. Its very useful. $\endgroup$
    – james_t
    Dec 8, 2021 at 19:47
  • $\begingroup$ The 3.0 upload error has re-appeared since yesterday. @GiantCowFilms $\endgroup$
    – james_t
    Jan 10, 2022 at 17:04
  • $\begingroup$ @GiantCowFilms I keep intermittently running into this problem; again today I got the same error message. Why does this keep happening? $\endgroup$
    – james_t
    Feb 2, 2022 at 22:05
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Today's error du jour is:

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    – james_t
    Mar 2, 2022 at 23:02

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