Purge Data Types (Blender Add-on)

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Creates a new icon inside Outliner's header tab that can purge data only for the selected type. No more bloated .blend files with 0 user materials and images, no more restarting files to get rid of them, and no more purging every data type together, which is for some reason built-in blender behavior.

Using this method you can only purge (permanently delete from .blend file) what you need and avoid accidentally purging important object datas and animation actions you accidentally left without a fake user.


Documentation:

What is orphaned data?

Orphaned data is any type of data in the .blend file (images, textures, brushes, node groups, mesh data, etc.) that have no users. All those stuff you see in the lists with 0 to the left of their names. Blender keeps those data files even after deleting objects and nodes so that you can get them back, or assign them to other objects/nodes.

But orphaned data can be annoying. To purge them, meaning delete them from .blend file completely, can be done by either: restarting the file, purging all orphaned data at once, or by deleting them individually in the outliner's orphaned data tab.

When do I need this feature?

You'll need it whenever your .blend file is bloated with orphaned data, giving you clutter in the UI and performance issues, but you don't want to risk purging all the data and losing something you wanted to keep.

Say you're testing out different PBR materials on your object, and importing countless images. After a while, you end up with a list so long you need to scroll and scroll in the Image Texture list to find the one you want. With this add-on, you can click the button and purge only orphaned images, while keeping node groups, mesh data, and others, that you might have left exposed safe.


Changelog:

1.1.

  • Buttons are inactive (greyed out) if there is no orphan data for that data type.
  • After the operation info will be printed in the footer, displaying the number of orphans purged.
  • Viewer Node, which is considered an orphaned image in Blender won't be purged or counted by the add-on
  • Included bug tracker link that redirects to the BlenderArtists page of the add-on

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Purge Data Types (Blender Add-on)

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