2021/2022 Stuck importing .blend files

I’m running windows 11, and have been working with a project with no issues until literally the past couple of days. When I open up my project, for some reason Unity is getting stuck on importing .blend files. I uninstalled Blender, installed a newer version, tried different unity versions - both 2021 and 2022, several restarts, and even tried pulling a single .blender file into a clean new project - which results in the same issue. I’ve tried deleting the library folder, backed up the project and even removed all the .meta files (just out of curiosity). Nothing.

I’ve been working on this project with Windows 11 before with no issues - however there was an update on Tuesday. I forget if I did any work tues/wed, but this problem seems to have popped up around that time.

So, my question is, has anyone been working with Unity on Windows 11 - with or without Tuesday’s update, or has anyone seen this odd .blender importing issue before?

SOLUTION

In case this shows up in a google search for whatever reason - the problem was using Blender 2.9. Unity seemed to recognize Blender was installed, but when calling it’s fbx exporter for .blend files, it’d just hang infinitely. Installing Blender 2.8 fixed the problem.