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Appending an object that is part of a linked group
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System Information
Win7; GTX 560 display; GTX 970 render

Blender Version
Broken: 2.74 official
Worked: (optional)

Short description of error
Blender behaves weirdly when appending objects that are part of already linked group.

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
Open Blender, Add a Cube and a Monkey, group them together and save the file as Source.blend
Make a new file called Target.blend and link the group from Source.blend
Append an object Suzanne from the Source.blend - now it is not actually appended but it is linked instead (is this also a bug?)
Select the appended Suzanne (the one that is not in the linked group) and in object properties make the object datablock local.
Now you can move the appended Suzanne but the linked one moves as well (even that the Suzanne in the Source.blend does not move)
To solve the problem you need to save the file and revert it.

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Marek Moravec (marek) created this task.Apr 9 2015, 2:35 PM
Marek Moravec (marek) raised the priority of this task from to 90.
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Sergey Sharybin (sergey) lowered the priority of this task from 90 to Normal.Apr 14 2015, 11:35 AM
Sergey Sharybin (sergey) added a subscriber: Campbell Barton (campbellbarton).
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@Campbell Barton (campbellbarton), i'm not really sure how such situations were intended to behave. Do you have ideas here?

mathieu menuet (bliblubli) added a subscriber: mathieu menuet (bliblubli).Jun 17 2015, 9:12 AM
perfection cat (sindra1961) added a subscriber: perfection cat (sindra1961).Jun 17 2015, 9:42 AM

I think that it is a problem that it is linked though Suzanne was appended.

perfection cat (sindra1961) added a comment.Jun 17 2015, 9:44 AM

It works definitely if I reverse order to carry out.

Campbell Barton (campbellbarton) mentioned this in rBM590: Add note about append behavior for existing data.Sep 7 2015, 6:19 PM
Campbell Barton (campbellbarton) added a comment.EditedSep 7 2015, 6:32 PM

The first issue is known, (commented in the code at least), noted rBM590, see note at: https://www.blender.org/manual/data_system/linked_libraries.html

See rB76420c2f

The second issue with making local an object used in a linked group, Im quite sure we ran into before... of course its possible to solve but quite involved.

  • Detect all references from library data.
  • Detect all references from linked data.
  • Make a local duplicate, and point all local references to the newly created local data.

... even then, duplicating the data could run into problems

Added to TODO,
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Source/Development/Todo/Import_Export#Blender_files_and_Library_linking

Campbell Barton (campbellbarton) edited a custom field.Sep 7 2015, 6:33 PM
Aaron Carlisle (Blendify) added subscribers: Aaron Carlisle (Blendify), Bastien Montagne (mont29).Nov 26 2015, 12:58 AM
Bastien Montagne (mont29) changed the task status from Unknown Status to Unknown Status.Nov 26 2015, 8:31 AM
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No real point in keeping this open once TODO is added to our list as linked by Campbell, archiving.

Philipp Oeser (lichtwerk) mentioned this in T55368: Blender development todo list -- Import/Export.Jun 14 2018, 3:34 PM