Unnecessary write operations on blender_assets.cats.txt #111576

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Albert-OShea · 2023-08-27T03:23:37+02:00

Albert-OShea commented

2023-08-27 03:23:37 +02:00

System Information
Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.22621-SP0 64 Bits
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.6.0 NVIDIA 536.99

Blender Version
Broken: version: 4.0.0 Alpha, branch: main, commit date: 2023-08-25 22:23, hash: 67843e188b24

Short description of error
If you have opened an Asset Browser area while working on a blend file, (it doesn't matter if you currently have it open, it only matters if you had it open at one point), and your asset catalogs are saved to a blender_assets.cats.txt file, this file will be overwritten every time you save your blend file, regardless of whether or not the catalogs were changed.

This seems harmless at first, but it can cause some issues with syncing and file sharing services like OneDrive; the constant writing and syncing of this file can cause annoyances, which to be fair, is not really Blender's problem, but the unnecessary writing to this file shouldn't be intended behavior in the first place if I'm not mistaken.

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error

Make sure your asset library is set up and you have the blender_assets.cats.txt storing your catalog information.
Open an Asset Browser area in your blend file. Don't modify any catalogs.
Save your file and look at the 'Date modified' of the blender_assets.cats.txt file to verify it was just overwritten.
Close the Asset Browser area in Blender.
Save your file and check blender_assets.cats.txt in the same way to verify it was just overwritten again.

**System Information** Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.22621-SP0 64 Bits Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.6.0 NVIDIA 536.99 **Blender Version** Broken: version: 4.0.0 Alpha, branch: main, commit date: 2023-08-25 22:23, hash: `67843e188b24` **Short description of error** If you have opened an Asset Browser area while working on a blend file, (it doesn't matter if you currently have it open, it only matters if you had it open at one point), and your asset catalogs are saved to a blender_assets.cats.txt file, this file will be overwritten every time you save your blend file, regardless of whether or not the catalogs were changed. This seems harmless at first, but it can cause some issues with syncing and file sharing services like OneDrive; the constant writing and syncing of this file can cause annoyances, which to be fair, is not really Blender's problem, but the unnecessary writing to this file shouldn't be intended behavior in the first place if I'm not mistaken. **Exact steps for others to reproduce the error** - Make sure your asset library is set up and you have the blender_assets.cats.txt storing your catalog information. - Open an Asset Browser area in your blend file. Don't modify any catalogs. - Save your file and look at the 'Date modified' of the blender_assets.cats.txt file to verify it was just overwritten. - Close the Asset Browser area in Blender. - Save your file and check blender_assets.cats.txt in the same way to verify it was just overwritten again.

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