Problems with xgen finding files: need help badly I'm almost done and now this.

[eric4YWK3]

Hi, here is my hyper realistic Will Dafoe, I'm in the last stages.  I have spent a few weeks on his hair and now for some reason xgen can't find all the maps and textures it needs, so the hair is not showing up.  

I have done 2 things that may be the cause:  

1) I closed maya, reopened it started a new project and set that project as i usually do in it's own folder.  When i reopened this project xgen couldn't find any of it's files...

or 

2)  I literally took my work computer home with as my family is sick and set it up here exactly the same, except maybe the external hard drive i'm working on is in a different port.  

Obviously the file paths are not in the right place, but i don't understand how that could happen all of a sudden.  

As i have been working on this for a long time I really would appreciate an experts help with redirecting the file paths for xgen so I can save my poor dafoe's hair:(

here is my hair not working, these look like the guides only. 

here is the first set of strange errors i got as soon as I opened maya. 

 

here are the errors after trying a render and the hair not working

[eric4YWK3]

I resolved this!!! The will dafoe project was somehow set in a new unrelated projects space is my best guess.  it's maya 2026 so maybe this is a bug.  Also using the file path editor had a learning curve.  It didnt actually have the power to redirect xgen files, something that's not intuative.  I had to edit the file path under collections in xgen and then use the file path editor to autoresolve the paths.  The hair is back as well as my mood.  my respect for maya however.... 

[eric4YWK3]

anyone who wants to give me an under the hood explanation for why making a new project changed the space for another project in maya 2026 it would be appreciated.  Imagine if all my maya projects are changed now.