How do I change the file path for all the textures used?

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I have made a scene in blender following some tutorials, however, since my C drive was getting too loaded, I shifted all my Blender stuff to the D drive. Now when I make a render in blender, all objects have a Purple colour to them. Reading other questions, I figured that it might be because the source of all the image textures have been shifted from C to D drive.

I changed the source of my textures on the current model I am working on through the node editor, however, for all my other .blend files, do I have to correct each textures location file one by one or is there an easier way?

Possible duplicate of Why are all the textures in my file pink? — Tobias Einarsson, Oct 26 '17 at 05:17
Side note: Always use relative paths for external data .Always put all project assets inside the same parent folder. — Duarte Farrajota Ramos, Oct 26 '17 at 05:18
I have a problem that I believe is related to the conversation below. We have a scene set up and working properly, but the texture sizes are too large for our needs. We want to use lower-resolution textures instead, but we're unsure how to make Blender read the new textures from a different location. Can you help us with this issue? — Sheikh Zaid, Sep 26 '23 at 01:58

score 30 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 20 '19 at 00:23

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File -> External Data -> Find missing files -> Choose your texture folder -> Find missing files.

Blender will then replace all missing textures with the fitting ones from the new selected folder.

edited Jul 20 '19 at 00:23

Duarte Farrajota Ramos

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answered Jul 19 '19 at 17:05

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From five years in the future, thank you. Life saver. – mycroft16 Mar 26 '24 at 06:10

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 28 '21 at 10:20

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I had this same problem and wrote an add-on to help, it's here:

https://github.com/cskilbeck/bl_TextureLocator

It's still in Testing but if it's useful we can see about getting it migrated into the repo.

answered Sep 28 '21 at 10:20

Charlie Skilbeck

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Wouldn't this addon still require manually switching for each material? Is it possible to switch folders for all the materials? – jasan Mar 31 '22 at 03:06
I'll look into it, I'll update the GitHub issue if/when I get it done – Charlie Skilbeck Mar 31 '22 at 22:27

How do I change the file path for all the textures used?

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