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Maya crashed and now multiple meshes and shaders are gone and in its place is just one green mesh

Bruce_Pynchon — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 21:00:20 GMT

I've never had this happen before- is there any way I can recover my previous save? I did not save it on crash but for some reason it looks like I did. Additionally, I didn't increment and save and so I'm worried I may be screwed here. Any thoughts?

Re: Maya crashed and now multiple meshes and shaders are gone and in its place is just one green mesh

teddude75 — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 21:08:09 GMT

You need a shader on your object. Your shader got deleted.

Re: Maya crashed and now multiple meshes and shaders are gone and in its place is just one green mesh

Bruce_Pynchon — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 21:14:05 GMT

I understand that, but meshes are missing from the scene in the outliner- I don't want to have to recreate everything, I want to be able to revert back to what I had.

Re: Maya crashed and now multiple meshes and shaders are gone and in its place is just one green mesh

Bruce_Pynchon — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 21:16:22 GMT

All my shaders are gone too so I can't even connect them.

Re: Maya crashed and now multiple meshes and shaders are gone and in its place is just one green mesh

teddude75 — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 21:18:12 GMT

Can you show the outliner?

Re: Maya crashed and now multiple meshes and shaders are gone and in its place is just one green mesh

Bruce_Pynchon — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 21:21:58 GMT

It oddly kept some of the super old stuff but nothing that I've recently done 😕 and all the shaders in the hypershade are gone.

Re: Maya crashed and now multiple meshes and shaders are gone and in its place is just one green mesh

teddude75 — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 21:52:07 GMT

here's where the file saves at crash time. If it's not there then it didn't save. C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Local\Temp. If you have a pervious version that had shaders then your good. Also if you have textures just apply them again.

Re: Maya crashed and now multiple meshes and shaders are gone and in its place is just one green mesh

Bruce_Pynchon — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 21:59:41 GMT

Thank you for trying to help- out of curiosity, right under my Maya file is this document -- the timestamp looks the time of my previous save; however, its got an 'mbB7zQbY' extension. Is there any way I can recover this file or use it somehow?

Re: Maya crashed and now multiple meshes and shaders are gone and in its place is just one green mesh

teddude75 — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 22:04:42 GMT

Try to change the exstension to .ma (not mb). If your lucky to will open. Also, for the future save .ma because you can editor the file and mb are binary

Re: Maya crashed and now multiple meshes and shaders are gone and in its place is just one green mesh

Bruce_Pynchon — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 22:11:04 GMT

THANK YOU! That worked!!!