Solved: "file does not exist" problem

Anonymous · ‎09-14-2014

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.

Steve_Curley · ‎09-15-2014

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

Max 2016 (SP1/EXT1)
Win7Pro x64 (SP1). i5-3570K @ 4.4GHz, 8Gb Ram, DX11.
nVidia GTX760 (2GB) (Driver 430.86).

Anonymous · ‎09-15-2014

Thank you Steve.

So, here I send ...

Anonymous · ‎09-17-2014

SOLVED

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

They're renamed and they work now.

Anonymous · ‎03-25-2015

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

Anonymous · ‎03-25-2015

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

Anonymous · ‎04-01-2018

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

Anonymous · ‎09-17-2018

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.

Anonymous · ‎10-20-2018

Thanks. This saved hours of remodeling a face for me

Anonymous · ‎10-20-2018

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.

Anonymous · ‎04-01-2019

it works. thanks 😄

Anonymous · ‎11-12-2019

you saved my day

Anonymous · ‎03-19-2020

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

Anonymous · ‎04-08-2021

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

shredder777 · ‎02-17-2022

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