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Posted: September 5th, 2021
Factory Startup Troubleshooting
At some point, either a script that you make or an add-on you installed might adversely affect Blender!
Thankfully, there is a way to troubleshoot things by putting Blender into a temporary factory startup. What this means is that in this mode, Blender is treated as thought
it is a fresh install with no extra scripts / add-ons installed, and all keyboard shortcuts are reset to Blender's vanilla, out of the box ones.
In this startup mode, if the problem isn't present, this confirms the issue is with one of your scripts or add-ons!
Closing and reopening Blender restores it to the current configurations you left off with!
Below are some simple instructions on both Windows and MacOSX platforms to launch Blender into its default factory startup mode!
Windows 10+
Mac OSX
At this point, regardless of which platform, Blender should automatically relaunch with its default installed factory settings. If any of Blender's previously broken functionality in question still remains,
this warrants a deeper investigation and might even be a good idea to create a Blender's Development account (it's free) and report a bug!
Otherwise, further debugging by disabling scripts / add-ons will be required to get to root of the problem! ∎