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How do you delete an Action?

by JohnT · in Artist Corner · 01/15/2006 (12:10 pm) · 7 replies

Anyone know how to completely remove an Animation Action from a project completely?

I came across mention of using the Append from File to go into the project and wack the action directly. I tried this but keep getting an error. I'm sure there must be a way to do.

Thanks!
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Torque Owner Gustavo Munoz
#1
01/16/2006 (12:24 am)
When you are in the action directory, look for the action to delete: if it has an F, select it and press the F key so it disapears. Then go back to the project, save, quit Blender and reopen the project, The action must not be there now. Sometimes you need to quit/reopen two times for the action to be deleted. If the action does not have a F, ignore the step and simply quit/reopen 1 or 2 times.

Regards,

Torque 3D Owner JohnT
#2
01/16/2006 (4:39 am)
When you mention the Action Directory, are you referring to the list of actions available from the Action Editor? If so, when I click on the up/down arrow next to the dropdown box I see a list of my actions and they all have an F to the left of the name. When I select the one I want to delete, I get a button to the right that has a 2 for the number of users of the data and an X next to it.

I have tried numerous variations of pressing the F key but have had no luck. I should mention that I am using version 2.4, although I went back to 2.37 to see if this makes any difference and it did not.

Am I misunderstanding how to do this?

Torque Owner Gustavo Munoz
#3
01/16/2006 (5:42 am)
Sorry: I was meaning after using the Append from file menu and once you are inside the actions directory of your file, then do the F stuff. It should work both in 2.4 and 2.37 versions, AFAIK...

Also be sure you are not using the action you want to delete with any object in the project. Then use the previous procedure.

Torque 3D Owner JohnT
#4
01/16/2006 (5:57 am)
No luck, I don't even see the letter "F" in the directory under Actions. I wonder if deleting actions in this manner has been removed.

Torque Owner Scott Coursey
Yellow Duck Software
#5
01/16/2006 (7:56 am)
It's possible to delete things from the directories like that, but it's ridiculously difficult. It involved deleting, saving, quitting Blender, re-opening, loading, checking the results, etc. If you see an "F" next to an item, you're in luck. That means the system's holding on to the item by placing a Fake "user" (user as in an object - action, mesh, IPO, etc). Hit "F" on that item so the result hopefully goes to "1" or "0".

I really hate that part of Blender. It's just so stupid.

Torque Owner Redacted
#6
01/16/2006 (9:06 am)
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Torque 3D Owner JohnT
#7
01/16/2006 (9:37 am)
Yeah! Apparently it makes a difference using the Shift + F4 instead of using the Append approach. Thanks go out to all of you guys; this one has been bugging me for some time now.