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Question

How do I open up two instances of Blender with both of them working with addons?

Context

  • I come from a Windows 11 background, where it is possible to do the above question in this environment
  • I understand how to create two instances of Blender via Terminal
  • After making two instances of Blender, one of the instances do not have working addons.
    • I use Better Pie Addons, and realized the instance that was opened first have the addons working while the second instance that was opened later does not.

Intention

  • I have a Main and an Experimental/Tutorial instance.
    • In my current case, I wish to reference the shaders nodes that I have done for the tutorial since the connection are very complicated
    • Sure, taking a screenshot is nice, but since I only have one screen, it is nice for me to scroll around the shader screen!

Theory

  • Is the second instance of Blender reading the same addon file? Does that mean I need to specify another configuration file? I assume that some resources (such as the addon) are locked in read, write and execute?

Conclusion

  • Thank you in advance for those who choose to help me!
  • I am really new to the Mac ecosystem so any help will be greatly appreciated!

References

This similar question seemed to already have been answered a long time ago but was wondering if anyone has any updates to this! Here is the link below: Is it possible to work on two or more files at the same time (or open multiple Blender instances?)

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    $\begingroup$ You can have multiple separate Blender.app, which can be launched independently, but you’ll need to install add-ons separately in both. $\endgroup$
    – Phrogz
    Commented Sep 19 at 5:35
  • $\begingroup$ @Phrogz Thank you very much for your helpful reply! You are right, I was able to copy and paste another Blender application and it worked flawlessly! $\endgroup$
    – Shuusai
    Commented Sep 19 at 10:51
  • $\begingroup$ Hi @DuarteFarrajotaRamos and thank you for correction suggestions. May I ask of you to check if everything is in order? $\endgroup$
    – Shuusai
    Commented Sep 19 at 11:51

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Thank you @Phrogz for your helpful solution!

Summary

Duplicate Blender in the Application window and rename.

Workflow

  1. Navigate to Applications
    Application Icon

  2. Locate Blender application, copy/paste and rename.
    enter image description here

  3. It is now possible to open two isolated Blender applications! Have fun! (Note: You may need to reinstall and re-enable your addons)

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