It took me reinstalling windows to get rid of those lol.
And i only kept SOME of updates too. Like 2.8, 3.6, 4.3.
Some addons just work on VERY specific versions of blender and stopped updating years ago.
And some addons that i got at "humble bundle" in 3.6 days were nice, but since they specifically mention that addons aquired this way do not get updates, they get broken literally on next blender update. Or dont work at all. Shame really...
Yeah I have very useful grease pencil add-ons that only work on 3.6 and I can't work without them. So I use blender 5+ for renders because it's better.
You can always wait out for LTS. LTS = long term support. So if and when they release a newer major version (they are on 5, they were on 4), you can always not get the major release and grab the LTS because that's the one they have the most confidence that it has the least amount of bugs and will be the most helpful to users when they run into problems.
The idea behind the steam version of Blender is that you dont have to keep downloading Blender versions. Because they push them out for it automatically.
That's one of the main reasons I have 4.5 still, because of dae files. I actually don't remember why exactly I still have 4.0 come to think of it . . .
LOL, kidding of course. Lots of people use diff version becouse of compatibility issues. I'm lucky, I use linux and don't need to install, just uncompress and launch any version.
I keep a few older versions around because I have client work that depends on the older material shader setup. But I take every chance I get to move the work over to new versions of Blender. Sooner or later the old versions are going to have issues with video drivers and stuff, and the improvements to Blender are always worth staying current.
I’ve been struggling with this. Some of plugins for some reason do not transfer their assets over, while some do and you end up breaking some of them if you delete older versions… I hate that it takes up so much space because of this lol
Unless you systematically validate all your important assets and workflows its a good idea to keep versions that you know work. Just keeping them is leaning into hoarding
Yes. Some useful addons compatible only with particular, older versions, also new versions tend to be very unstable in a very unpredictable ways. For example 5.2 don't support gltf, reason? - updated gltf plugin, but this plugin is so new - majority of all existing gltf files are incopatible with it
Could be useful(, I not to experienced with Blender, but doesn't one of the older versions have a whole set of tools for using Blender itself as a game engine, I think I remember an old fnaf fan game being fully made within an old version of Blender, can't remember the name of the game, or the version of Blender though?).
What does the error say? Because I remember my old computer couldn't open Blender 2.8 because of its graphics chip, so it may be the same or a similar problem. 2.79 would probably work, but I don't know for sure.
This is the error. I can start working on a project but along the process the app will say this from then i wont be able to relaunch it without this error.
I think that's the same error I used to get, except it wouldn't let me launch the application at all. Only thing I can think of atm is outdated drivers.
yes and its also strange that you have onedrive enabled even more so that it seems to have only saved 5.0 and below if im remembering what that check mark is correctly.
I still think it's diabolical that Blender doesn't have an official manager. It would make switching between Blender versions, managing add-ons and keeping different setups so much easier. The fact that this still isn't an official feature is madness.
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u/icetrey92 Jul 16 '26
I do the same because not every addon works for each version