topic Re: Save Scene As not remembering last folder in Maya Forum

Save Scene As not remembering last folder

smbell1979 — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 20:55:06 GMT

If you do anything in maya that involves picking something from a folder, such as adding a file texture to a shader, then the start folder when you "Save Scene As" is set to that folder.

It makes it very tedious to increment a file quickly. I am constantly having to move scene files from tons of different folders across my drive and it's extremely annoying. This didn't use to happen on 2016 and previous versions. It would always remember the last folder you used for saving the scene.

Re: Save Scene As not remembering last folder

mspeer — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 22:24:57 GMT

Hi!

Please have look here:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-forum/2017-save-open-path-bug/td-p/7395922

Idea for Maya:

https://mayafeedback.autodesk.com/forums/160514-ideas-for-maya-forum/suggestions/31746961--save-as-default-location

This following should be merged with the Idea at top, it's exactly the same:

https://mayafeedback.autodesk.com/forums/160518-small-annoying-things-to-fix-in-maya-forum/suggestions/18772441-when-using-save-scene-as-maya-remembers-the-last

Re: Save Scene As not remembering last folder

wynandlens — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 07:45:26 GMT

Hey I've written a little script that fixes it. I saved it as the usual Hotkey, Ctrl-Shift S

#saveSceneAs_currentLoc

'''

This prevents Maya from opening a dialog box anywhere else but the current scene's save location.

'''

#get current scene's location

full_sn = cmds.file( q=1, sn=1 )

full_sn_split = full_sn.split( '/' )

path = full_sn.replace( full_sn_split[-1], '' )

#create a fileDialog that chooses where to save file

multipleFilters = "Maya ASCII (*.ma);;Maya Binary (*.mb);;Maya Files (*.ma *.mb)"

new_file_name = cmds.fileDialog2( startingDirectory=path, fileFilter=multipleFilters )

#rename scene to new_file_name

full_sn = cmds.file( rename=new_file_name[0] )

#save scene

cmds.file( save = 1 )

Re: Save Scene As not remembering last folder

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 17:46:21 GMT

Nice! I'll give it a shot! Thanks.

Re: Save Scene As not remembering last folder

wynandlens — Sat, 04 Aug 2018 09:06:43 GMT

Sweet!
I've updated it since.
Just tell me if it works for you.
cheers