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1. Folders named 'Keyboard' - Maya 2013 bug?

   

   Topic by sheckee · Sep 2012 · Home› Technical Talk

   Since installing Maya 2013 I get folders titled 'Keyboard' which are empty appearing in any location I open or save maya files from. Here's a screen shot to illustrate. I basically have folders everywhere in my projects files called Keyboard which are empty. Is there a way to stop this happening? It's a bit annoying. Can't…

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   Reply by hice3di · Jan 2014 · Home› Technical Talk

   hi guys. i'm having the same thing just this month or maybe since December. i noticed it just this this month. 100% the same. All of my project folder with maya has the same folder. Has anyone already know how to prevent this kind of sorcery? suggestions will be much appreciated. thank you very much

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   Reply by hice3di · Jan 2014 · Home› Technical Talk

   hi guys. i'm having the same thing just this month or maybe since December. i noticed it just this this month. 100% the same. All of my project folder with maya has the same folder. Has anyone already know how to prevent this kind of sorcery? suggestions will be much appreciated. thank you very much

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   Reply by Warheart · Dec 2012 · Home› Technical Talk

   I'm glad other people are seeing this too. I had thought it was being created by a rogue bit of my toolset and it was driving me crazy trying to track it down. I had a quick look into when it happens and it looks like Maya creates it in the directory it was launched from (which is the same directory the MEL command pwd()…

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   Reply by Danny Blank · Mar 2013 · Home› Technical Talk

   Anyone actually figure out how to stop maya from making these folders?

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   Reply by sheckee · Sep 2012 · Home› Technical Talk

   :D Thanks Kwramm. I managed to find out that it's something to do with Maya 2013's keyboard preferences. For some reason it likes to make folders for it with nothing in them. Apparently there is no way to stop it. Brilliant.

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   Reply by Kwramm · Sep 2012 · Home› Technical Talk

   Weird, I came across this some time ago and wondered where the folder came from. I'm a tech-artist though and I dunno on which of the many PCs I saw this on. Guess I just wanna tell you - you're not alone, you're not crazy ;) I wish I could help though...

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   Reply by sheckee · Apr 2013 · Home› Technical Talk

   Just to update, it still happens for me in 2014. Fantastic.

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   Reply by mattbaka · Jan 2013 · Home› Technical Talk

   got this too on our Maya 2013 sp2 extension... need to add maya to a 120+ computer image for our 3d school, hoping we can work out a fix soon.

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    Reply by Toast · Sep 2012 · Home› Technical Talk

    Maya is a very strange program. I get this as well.