Saving/Export a custom shelf in Maya 2017

bitinn

Hi all,

I can't for the love of god find where my custom shelves are saved to. I have set project folder but it seems shelves don't follow this setting, if I try "load a shelf" it doesn't appear in the default folder.

I would think workspace has something to do with it, but workspace.mel doesn't contain it neither.

I am on MacOS and I am totally stuck.

janoshx

Have you tried here?

/Users/username/Library/Preferences/Autodesk/maya/2017/prefs/shelves/

bitinn

janoshx said:

Have you tried here?

/Users/username/Library/Preferences/Autodesk/maya/2017/prefs/shelves/

There they are! Preference folder, of course, thx!

For prosperity, locations of said folder on every platform:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/Maya/files/GUID-045ADC80-E38A-4F2C-A428-8CE19D51D3A8-htm.html

(a shame you can't import/export preference as a simple file)

janoshx

In OSX there is two important locations for maya plugins etc. 
Add them both to your finder sidebar for easy access

/Users/Shared/Autodesk/
and
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/Autodesk/maya