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[Maya] Saved file is completely empty

Tofi
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Tofi polycounter lvl 3
Did anyone have this problem before?  I've had something similar happen in the past and the meshes showed up in Outliner but not this time. The file is completely empty, no trace of what I modeled even though the file is 1.1 mb.
Odd thing is thing is the autosaves are empty too.
I'm not too sad about it but if there is a solution to the problem or way to recover the model that would be great. Especially if it happens again in the future.
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  • throttlekitty
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    throttlekitty ngon master
    Any errors in the script editor? It may be salvageable still, moreso if you have a recent backup.

    quick edit: What usually happens is some kind of bad data (ive noticed it a lot in UVs in particular), so maya just ends up discarding the whole model as a result.
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  • sprunghunt
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    sprunghunt polycounter
    Is it a mayabinary file or a mayaAscii file? if there's an error in the script editor with a line number you can save your file as maya Ascii and go and edit that line to be correct. 

    Also try exporting the whole file to OBJ and reimporting the OBJ. This might also fix it.
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