topic Re: "file does not exist" problem in Maya Forum

"file does not exist" problem

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 02:08:13 GMT

Hello,

I had to reinstall my maya2015. Than I tried to open my mb files but some cases i'v got:"file does not exist" message. The files have all the properties(size and so on).

I tied to attach one of them, but .mb extesion not valid for an attachment here.

Please, please help me!!! My half year work should lost.

Re: "file does not exist" problem

Steve_Curley — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 08:48:13 GMT

You need to zip such files then they will attach, provided they are below the 5MB size limit.

Re: "file does not exist" problem

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 13:31:43 GMT

Thank you Steve.

So, here I send ...

Re: "file does not exist" problem

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 21:58:44 GMT

SOLVED

There was some special(hungarian) character in the file names.......

They're renamed and they work now.

Re: "file does not exist" problem

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 23:11:20 GMT

I didn't want to create a new post, so I just wanted to ask how did you recovered the file. I worked on a design for a knife for my character on Maya 15 and I save everything on a different file, every now and then (I don't overwrite the files, it's better I guess). Today I tried to open them and Maya said for every one of them that "The file does not exist". I will be really thankful if you can tell me how to fix that.
Take care

Re: "file does not exist" problem

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 02:10:56 GMT

Nevermind, fixed it. Basicaly the problem was the same, I had the file in a nameless folder which caused the problem. If someone has this issue, just check the path and make sure that everything is in latin I think. Sorry for the worthless question though

Re: "file does not exist" problem

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 05:46:23 GMT

wow... thankyou..!! this fixed my hours of googeling...

Re: "file does not exist" problem

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 17:59:50 GMT

I solved this issue by renaming a folder in the path that the project was in.

I removed a backslash "/" from a folder. Look for strange symbols/characters and remove them from folders and the project name itself.

Re: "file does not exist" problem

Anonymous — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 13:08:44 GMT

Thanks. This saved hours of remodeling a face for me

Re: "file does not exist" problem

Anonymous — Sun, 21 Oct 2018 03:47:43 GMT

The other day this happened to me and my file was still recent, all i did was make a new folder and move all the files.

Re: "file does not exist" problem

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 00:51:30 GMT

it works. thanks 😄

Re: "file does not exist" problem

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 21:45:35 GMT

you saved my day

Re: "file does not exist" problem

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 17:30:58 GMT

For me, it worked just with moving the files to Desktop.

Re: "file does not exist" problem

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 05:43:38 GMT

THANK YOU! omg I moved it to my desktop and it opened!

Re: "file does not exist" problem

shredder777 — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 07:27:42 GMT

WOW! This worked for me as well.. Just drag to the desktop.