Did you at one time have Shave & a Haircut installed (a hair/fur plugin)?
Google-fu lead me to this:
"Search for *shave* in your Outliner, right click and turn off show DAG only and delete any shave nodes (eg shaveGlobals).
In your Render Globals, under Render options, Pre render layer and Post Render layer mel, delete those lines.
In your ascii scene, open it with notepad, and at the top of the file there will be a line that says requires shave, delete that and save, re open and shave will be gone."
also, make sure Maya isn't trying to load it via the Plugin Manager
Much appreciated xillyriax that helped fix it. Thank you There was a shave_MRFrameStart,shave_MRFrameEnd in Render Settings Render Options which may have been causing it too.
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Google-fu lead me to this:
"Search for *shave* in your Outliner, right click and turn off show DAG only and delete any shave nodes (eg shaveGlobals).
In your Render Globals, under Render options, Pre render layer and Post Render layer mel, delete those lines.
In your ascii scene, open it with notepad, and at the top of the file there will be a line that says requires shave, delete that and save, re open and shave will be gone."
also, make sure Maya isn't trying to load it via the Plugin Manager