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The Blender manual explains that eligible external resources can be packed into a blend-file. Pack Resources marks them for packing, and the actual packing takes effect on the next save. Do not assume that clicking the menu alone has produced a self-contained file ready to send to a colleague.

Not every external file can be packed: the manual names videos from the Sequence Editor and Movie Clips as examples. Make an inventory of project dependencies and arrange a separate handoff for resources that stay outside the file. Use the documentation matching the installed version when checking menus and packing behavior.

Before adopting the workflow, save a small representative project, copy the handoff package to a separate location and reopen it to check missing resources. Budget for learning, hardware and delivery requirements, not just the application price. No affiliate link, rendering benchmark or hands-on quality score is claimed here.