Maya crash every time I try to open a scene that worked just fine yesterday..

spexel

Every time I try to open this scene Maya freeze for a moment trying to load. 
I get this error message: 
Error: file: C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2016/scripts/startup/colorManagementUtilities.mel line 281: Cannot convert data of type string[] to type string. //  select -r front_crest1|pPipe16 ;

then it crash completely, I don't know what to do

help!

BucketOfNuggets

Delete your prefrences in My Documents. I am at work at the moment but I had a similar issue not too long a go. There is a file in your My Documents in the Maya folder. Just delete it. Restart and it will work.

spexel

BucketOfNuggets said:

Delete your prefrences in My Documents. I am at work at the moment but I had a similar issue not too long a go. There is a file in your My Documents in the Maya folder. Just delete it. Restart and it will work.

Still the same issue

unit187

Is it whole text of the error?
If your file is .ma (not .mb) you can probably fix it manually, since this file is basically MEL script. According to error text you have something wrong with "front_crest1|pPipe16" object. Search your script and see what does Maya do with it. Probably just delete those parts of script which have anything to do with the object. The object will be lost, but you might be able to recover the scene. And don't forget to backup the file before messing with the script.

throttlekitty

Most of the time, a .ma is created in c:\users\[username]\AppData\Local\Temp\ with a timestamp on it. Here you can attempt to open this file and see if you get it to load, or a more helpful error. Or open the file in a text editor and see if manual edits can help you.

Subtle 1rony

Its happened to me a few times where my scene has corrupted and I couldn't open it. If none of the above suggestions work, always having autosave enabled has saved me a bunch of times from losing work. Saves an new iteration every 10 minutes! Though in this situation, it doesn't do any good if you didn't have it enabled before the crashes. Just a suggestion for the future though.