Windows can access WSL2 paths as \\wsl$\Ubuntu-20.04\home\me\scene.blend
but I can't type that path into blender's File>Open dialog box (2.93 alpha nightly of 2021-01-18) to load my project into Blender running on windows. Is there another way to load projects from a WSL2 distro (or otherwise use weird NTFS path names like this) into Windows blender? (Other than copying the .blend file to Windows filesystem of course)
1 Answer
As recommended by @AllenSimpson, the simplest answer is to create a Windows symlink:
mklink /d c:\wsl2-home \\wsl$\Ubuntu-20.04\home\me
and then in Blender you can open c:/wsl2-home/scene.blend
as usual.
mklink /d c:\wsl2-home \\wsl$\Ubuntu-20.04\home\me
and then openc:/wsl2-home/scene.blend
in blender. $\endgroup$