Maya 2018 crashed, save file is large but displays empty, any help?

[Anonymous]

I was attempting to save about 4 hours of work when Maya crashed and I seem to have lost all my work. I located a crash file (in the TEMP directory) but when I opened it the save was empty (although the file is 3 MB). I already attempted to edit out any "NaN" with text editor, that didn't help sadly.

Can I salvage anything?

Also I was working with Maya 2018 and the backup seems to be in Maya 2019 format?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/t0cemeif9ensf3r/Justin.20190225.1846.ma?dl=0

[Anonymous]

I figured it out thanks to an older post from @mspeer , although I edited my corrupted save with notepad and used the "replace" tool to get rid of the "nan" entries I missed a "nan(ind)" entry because using "replace" got rid of ALL the "nan" including the "nan" in front of "nan(ind)" so I had left in a stray "0(ind)"

Beware anyone using the "replace" tool to mass replace "nan" errors. Just be safe and search manually for "IND".

Also I couldn't find how to delete this thread so if a moderator wants to delete this or mark it answered thanks.

[mspeer · Accepted solution]

Hi!

The trick is to replace first all "nan(ind)" and then all "nan".

You should be able to mark your own answer as solution.