Maya error. Right click menu non existance

beezul

yeah so... was modeling in Maya and uvin and POOF right click stopped working. googled and searched the forums with no luck. please help. this is annoying as hell. Marking menu just wont show up
Edit...
Fuckin num lock...
i can now rest peacefully...
i r noob

kodde

Nuke your prefs to kingdom come!


You might consider doing this, just make sure you backup any scripts, shelves, etc. you want to keep. You could just rename the existing prefs folder and start Maya. Then copy from the old one.

MoP

Do you see any warning or error messages in the script window when this happens?

I've noticed that the context menus sometimes don't use long (unique) object names for querying nodeType, so the command to build the menu will fail (in Maya 2008 anyway).

You might see a warning saying something like "more than one object matches name", if that's the case then you can get around it simply by renaming the object to something unique.

I'd check this before deleting all prefs

Synthesizer

I had some weird error where the hypershade wouldn't display anything, so I deleted my prefs and re-add only the important stuff, which fixed the problem. Maya seems to like doing this every so often... Maybe I shouldn't keep carrying over my prefs which originally started with version 4.5 or so :S

sama.van

Sometime happened when Maya is out of memory...

Restart Maya or your computer to purge the memory

Or as they already said, preferences get destroyed somewhere