topic Re: Maya 2017 same icon for .mb and .ma files in Maya Forum

Maya 2017 same icon for .mb and .ma files

alsndr — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 01:05:04 GMT

Hi,
Today I have just found out that my icons are the same for .mb, .ma and .mel.

Is there a way to reset them to the proper icons?

Thanks in advance.

Re: Maya 2017 same icon for .mb and .ma files

sean.heasley — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:57:04 GMT

Hi @alsndr

I've actually never seen this before!

You could try deleting your settings/preferences and that may fix the issue.

If it doesn't its possible that this may be how your Windows is reading the files and defaulting them to that Maya Icon so you may need to reset that setting.

Let me know if anything changes!

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Re: Maya 2017 same icon for .mb and .ma files

sean.heasley — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 20:36:45 GMT

Hi @alsndr

I'm just checking in again to see if you need more help with this. Did the suggestion I provided yesterday work for you?

If so, please click Accept as Solution on the posts that helped you so others in the community can find them easily.

Re: Maya 2017 same icon for .mb and .ma files

alsndr — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 01:51:10 GMT

Hi Sean.

Thanks for the help! I did some researches and unfortunately I think that the only way to fix this issue is to re-install Maya. But if you could help me more i'll be glad to hear anything to fix this annoying problem.

Thanks.

Re: Maya 2017 same icon for .mb and .ma files

mspeer — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 12:51:35 GMT

Hi!

Try assigning the file-type (extension) to an other application first and then re-assign it back to Maya.

Re: Maya 2017 same icon for .mb and .ma files

sean.heasley — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 19:47:35 GMT

Hi @alsndr

I'd recommend trying @mspeer's suggestion first but if that doesn't work then yes a clean uninstall/reinstall of Maya may solve it!

Let me know if anything changes!

If one or more of these posts helped answer your question, please click Accept as Solution on the posts that helped you so others in the community can find them easily.

Kudos are greatly appreciated. Everyone likes a thumbs up!

Re: Maya 2017 same icon for .mb and .ma files

alsndr — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 00:20:23 GMT

Thanks mspeer and Sean for your help.

In the end i had to perform a clean unistall and reinstall of Maya to fix my issue.

Probably Maya didn't want to assign them in any way.

Now i can continue to use Maya regularly!

Thanks Alot!

Cheers.