all MC textures get: file not found

[litoj]

What are you trying to do, and what do you expect to happen?

I am opening minecraft block models and expect the associated textures to be found and loaded as well. All the files are in the standard structure.

What happens instead?

No textures are loaded and blockbench reports error Blockbench could not find the requested file. Make sure it is saved locally and not in a cloud.

All textures must be loaded manually and with the next opening of the file, all textures are there now twice, once the not found ones and once the textures I added manually, although their path shows as identical.

Model format in which the issue occurs

minecraft block model

Blockbench variant

Program

Blockbench version

4.8.3 ? - blockbench doesn't offer a way to get the version

Operating System

archlinux - wayland/sway

Additional information

I have noticed, that the file not found message doesn't show up when I put the model in the minecraft directory - meaning the textures/block/path is literally just from the PWD, yet the textures still don't load.

[litoj]

I have found a setting in the preferences to set the default path, which fixed my problem. It would be nice, though, if there was either a prompt when the path is not set, or just figure out the path from the current model postition

[litoj]

Also, even though I just open the file, when the default path is set, it immediatelly sets the opened file as modified - very annoying when just previewing an unmodified file.

And the textures are still duped, when opened:

[litoj]

Now I've just stopped seeing the model entirely despite the textures getting loaded.