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Okay.

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This is a serious lecture because you can lose data if you're not careful.

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If you already have used blender in the past you've got work that you don't want to be lost do not open.

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It's a tool in Blender 2.8.

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I'm going to save that as that is safer than just saying do not save it because it's very easy.

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I know that I will automatically just save something if I'm working on it.

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So make sure you've got a backup of all your prior work.

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I mean that's a good thing to have anyway regardless of this bits of advice.

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But basically if you go ahead and open up something and 2.8 and save it it will no longer open in previous

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versions of Blender.

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Now that is important because there's no way of recovering it either.

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So bear in mind as you're opening up previous work now as we progress forward of course because Blender

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is in case of a beta status at the moment some things may work some things may not work and a few things

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may change as you're going through this course if he spots anything like that.

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Be aware that the next day there is often another build a blender 2.8 coming out.

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Try that one first and see if that fixes the issue.

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I know I've had that with the grease pencil in the past.

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The next day's release actually fixed those issues.

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So do try that first and of course just bear in mind that some things it will just crash and then it'll

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be fixed again in the future so don't worry that's happening.

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It's not just you.

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Everybody is in the same boat so let's crack on.

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Now you've been given the warning please make sure you back up your work regardless of whether you're

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opening in 2.8 or not.

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I can't count the number of times people have lost hours of work because they can save and they didn't

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backup.

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So that's quite critical to managing your workflow as we go.

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So let's crack on now and hop on over in the blender.