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Question by Sydan · Apr 09, 2010 at 09:12 PM · importassets

Does Unity import assets everytime?

Does it need to import assets everytime or can you stop it from doing so?

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avatar image ti89TProgrammer · Feb 23, 2012 at 05:32 PM 0
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In version 3.5, Unity is doing this again! Unity 3.5 endlessly importing assets

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related: http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/11241/is-there-a-way-to-increase-speed-or-disable-import.html

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Answer by Eric5h5 · Apr 09, 2010 at 10:25 PM

No, Unity does not need to import assets every time. It only imports assets that have changed. If it's reimporting assets that have not changed, then something is going wrong. I'm not quite sure what to suggest since I've never experienced that, but you should at least know that it's not normal.

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Ah its because Im new and I was starting new projects, I assumed it was reloading assets everytime. Thanks for you help anyway.

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Yes, it shouldn't reimport everything every time. I have noticed that if you move or rename the top folder (containing Assets/Library/Scenes) then everything reimports the next time you run Unity. This is an issue for the way we share scenes between users -- we end up reimporting all assets each time we copy a shared scene, which is unfortunate.

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