Finding MISSING TEXTURES (Pink Texture Fix) in Blender! 

Hi everyone! Let me know if you have any questions about this tutorial in the comments below! :)

Dude you're a life saver, I just wanna hug you.

i watched countless tutorials on this problem for many days... none was able to fix the problem until i discovered this video. IT WORKED MORE THAN I WANTED IT TO. BEST, SIMPLE, CLEAR AND STRAIGHT FORWARD VIDEO. Thank You.

Blender is extremely deep (in a good way) and learning it without formal training can come with brain-exhaustion. This short tutorial has relieved a lot of my brain trauma. THANKS!

Such a simple fix, but a headache to figure out. Thank you for this. You're a life saver ❤

Also, check to see if the material in the background is the cause of the problem (you can check by selecting the "World Properties" and see what the preview looks like). For me, my textures were showing up fine in the Viewport Shading but when I checked Cycles my model had the texture but was also shaded with pink. I searched high and low and found out this was what was causing the problem for me. Hope this helps someone else! :)

4 years later and still savin lives. Thank you so much for this short, sweet and to the point video.

Looks like I have to start from finding missing video. Don't know why I cannot play your video in better quality than 360p.

This was such an easy fix, I had no idea Blender could even do this. I was worried I'd have to re-link everything by hand. You are a lifesaver, thank you!

my man, ur a LIFE savior. 10 min before I had to deliver a school project (blender model) it all had turned purple. tysm!!!!

Wow, my gut instinct when this happened to me in Blender was to do an internet search for it, because nothing in Blender is logical or intuitive. Turns out, this one time it actually was! :)

this one is really good but, my blender keeps telling me that there is no texture found, so i did the next best thing, and instead of letting blender do the job, i went into the shading- and browsed for the texture myself and its applied directly, this option also very easy and more productive if you maybe don't like the actual texture and you want to replace it.

THIS IS SUCH A LIFESAVER! Also, A quick tip for those who are plagued by this problem after recovering an autosaved file - if you specify that Blender make all file paths absolute rather than relative, it won't try searching the directory or folder that it ends up in (temp, if you're recovering an autosave) and will instead keep the links to their original locations in the file system. I think this eliminates the problem entirely, but as a result if you want to move the blender file and its asset files into a new folder everything will break in the same way, so only do this if you're absolutely positive you won't be migrating the files anywhere else.

Thnx SOOOOO MUCH! This Helped Very MUCH! THANK U!

I LOVE PEOPLE WHO DO TUTORIALS, THANKIUUUUUUU

Solid information man, much apprecaite you taking the time to go over quick tips that can be frustrating when your first starting out, lol. Appreciate it

It happened with reference images in my case, and since there were only 3 of them in a folder, it took a second to fix the problem! This really helps, thanks:)

it worked hhhhh i was having this problem for 3 months and its so simple thx m8

Try checking for time stamps or additional text in your texture file. The MTL file is looking for the exact file name. In my case, i transferred my KIT to my HD and when it did this it added a timestamp to the file name. I needed to use a bulk rename to get rid of the text at the end. It was really annoying.

Thanks a lot buddy , you have saved my atleast 2 hrs😭😭 , i want to submit tommorow my project , you saved my time , thanks 🥳🥳😍😍

the thing is there is no folder

A LIFE SAVER I SPENT 6+ HORUS CHECKING CONSTENTLY ON MY RENDER AND I CHECKED AT ONE POINT AND IT WAS PINK YOU SAVED ME❤

Omg u saved my life I was making my biggest ever project in blender

I know it was 3 years ago when you put the video up but it's still a gem today! Thank you.

It doesn’t work for me, I click the image file and it doesn’t let me click it or highlight it to then click find missing files

Thanks bro, this really helped me. At first I got frustrated by the missing textures. But then your videos came to my recommendation and helped me.

What if all the textures are embeded on the .blend file because I dont have the image files, just the .blend file how do I fix it? I know it had textures because I go to materials and set somthing as image textures, I can find all the textures

AS ALWAYS THE BEST EXPLANATIONS ON THE TOPIC... everyone wannabe a tutorial maker but few know how to explain things... you're my fav! thanks

it just tells me can not find file (insert file name here)

As a new 3d dev, in blender, you is my life saver

If I do this my blender crashes :( Have a pretty beefy system tho.

the intros to these vids are awesome and wake me up when i forget how welcoming they are haha

this kinda helped, but it keeps saying some textures can't be found, but i'm looking at them right there in the folder. and this is a recent project that i opened a couple days ago, and nothing was pink.

Thank you for making this video. I sam still very new to Blender and couldn't figure out why the project I downloaded was pink/purple. Never would have thought to look in File.

I'm having a problem of my own with pink textures that may or may not be unrelated: while trying to apply a texture to a simple cube through an image texture node, the cube comes out completely pink, even though the material preview shows the correct texture. Weirder, some textures will work on the cube, while others don't! Getting this problem in both Cycles and Eevee. Gonna guess my problem is a different one. Great video though!

for some people if you download a model or file .blend some textures can have a different format that the one you downloaded convert it then do automatic search for example an error would pop up with the .name like .TGA convert then search

Thank you, This is my first day, and I restarted twice, because it would crash while rendering, and I would come back to missing textures. Thank you again for the help.

Just now seeing this public service announcement. Very much appreciated!

omg thanks for this video! i deleted so many models i spend forever on because i thought the textures were broken and the model was based around the texture and if the texture was gone i would just make a new one

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!

you no joke, just saved my entire file. THANK YOU!~

I like the "file path editor"in Maya, its essential when working in a network with other people, strange that something like this i missing in Blender

Thank you so much. This is far better than manually re-inputting each individual texture.

Although it only plays in 360 quality, it helped in no time. great! thanks

Thank you! I panicked when i load file and saw a pink texture. I didn't know that this problem is easy to fix.

Thank you very much, just saved me from a stress show, I built a new workstation and lost a texture when I moved my work over

I was having issues with this exact file, wow

Well... you saved me probably an hour or more of linking to a kitbash texture folder I moved so thank you

thanks so much man! i made my textures in a project i was working on and the next day everything was pink. now its good again! thanks a bunch.

Thank you! I'm just starting out and the program is already daunting in itself, so when I woke up and saw all the textures missing after all my work learning yesterday, well.. lol! Great video :)

Thnak youuuuu so much , i suffered for hours to get them back and thanx u to u they r back and i motivated again !!

omg thanks I did not know how to do this so when I would have the purple models I would individually go and change every single texture it was such a pain. thx :)

Ty, in my case I simply forgot that I did some clean folder hierarchy including those missing ones ;)

Went thru 5 garbage tutorials until I found this gem. Bless you!

!ACTUAL FIX! at 1:30. Go to file: external data: find missing files and select your missing textures from there.

Man, very effective, it really did find the missing textures, thank you alot!

You can also set the path to a root folder or directory if you can't find the specific folder. Thanks for making this video, it was super helpful! ❤

Thanks you so much Sir♥♥

Exactly what I needed! Many Thanks! Still works perfectly as of Blender 4.1

It pains me to admit how long I spent trying to figure out wtf was going on when I moved one of my folders around but could still see the link and even the texture previews looked fine. This solved it immediately. Thank you!

Great! I have had this experience without a clue what to do about it. Now I do. Thanks!

thanks man!

thanks a lot for this tutorial, i had this same problem for a lot of my old files which became purple as you showed. your tutoriel allowed me to retrieve these files again. I'm very happy of this because this was a hard work during several months. so again and again thanks a looooot.

YOU ABSOLUTE HERO, YOU SAVED ME, i had 400 objects with 400 something different textures. Subbed,THANK YOU!!

Thank you so much! The ONE time I try to get organized I screw up my project and YOU helped me fix it!

even in blender 3.0 this saved me thanks a ton

Justin SUPER HELPFUL! But I have exported a scene from 3ds Max as an FBX and find missing files doesn't work, how do I manually find the textures in the shader that need replacement?

I'm having this problem except the textures aren't purple-pink, they're metal. Any help would be greatly apreciated.

This is a life saver for beginners. Super helpful 👍

This helped me with my new Cyberpunk Kitbash3d set. Love your content mate. Thank's a bunch!

This may have been created around 2 years ago but this still helps, thanks!!!

This is what I have been looking Great job sir ...thank you

U just saved me from not trying something new thanks a lot!!!!!!!

thank u so much

Probably the 4th fix I have come across that doesn't work, i don't even get any error messages about it either and this is me testing it throughout several different models.

the missing textures are always a problem for me, on any project over 2-4 hours all textures bump maps included turn pink out of the blue and make me retexture everything

You dropped this, my king 👑

Hey, I have a question whenever you go to shading i don`t see the open or new+. Its on the top in the middle in that black box can you help me?

Thank you Goooood!!!!!!

Awesome video. In my case I had messed around with my base colour settings without realising. Resetting all of the options fixed the problem in case anyone did this as well.

I know its been a year since this video is up, but thank you for this tutorial! you saved me

After hours. Finally a simple video showing me instead of some ball aching way lol. Thanks man. Liked and subbed

Thank you big time! Subbed. As a Maya user had no idea how to do this obviously. I know it in Maya but useless here :) Quick search and done. Thanks again!

Thank you so much! I don't know why I didn't do this earlier haha

Thank you so freaking much!!! short and just gets straight to the point

God you just saved me so much time trying to reimport everything. Thank you so much!

Okay, that was f**king brilliant. Thanks for helping. I was bashing my head against the wall because nobody uses the "External Data/Pack Resources" when they sell their assets online. That would solve this problem. But now you've shown me how to fix this monster issue. Cheers

Thanks so much. A three year old video, and as useful in 2023 as it was back then!

I love you. you literally saved my life billion times.

Oh Thank you so much for this! I tried putting back my .blend file to it's original location and I panicked when the pink textures still persisted!

This is super helpful thank you! Saved me so much time. I was going and picking each png file one by one to build out the model. LIFESAVER!

これが知りたかったです！本当にありがとうございます。

thenk you very much! finally i found my missing textures😄🥰

thanks man , helped me a lot , i changed the names of the files and the textures went missing , this is my 2nd Project

Thanks so much! I was an idiot and renamed my texture folder without thinking that blender wont find it. I was wondering why the textures suddenly didn’t load 🤦‍♂️ lol.

Thanks Justin that helped me a lot! Much appreciated.

omfg you saved my life...was so close to having a breakdown but thought to see if anyone could help and you fucking did thank you so much

your starting to speak style is really interesting and thanks for teaching for free to everyone :)

Im having problems with this method, it found the files but wont add them to the model is there any way to fix this?

I have a similar problem, but the deal is that when I load the textures to the Image texture node the texture file has a "UDIM" written which it doesnt have in the actual file