Shape nodes for missing object seems to be in your outliner? They are just empty or what? Don't see why, but did you check the drawing overrides? One can enable the drawing override, uncheck visibility, and the regular visibility under object display is still is "on" with nothing visibile. Drawing overrides are on your…
Are there both transform + shape nodes for these missing objects? Are you certain they are not in your scene, just not being displayed for some reason? Could it be that you have referenced them instead or importing? In that case, did you have a look in the reference editor?
I'm having the same issue this morning. I've been reading through different forums and it seems like everyone has their own unique solution (none of which have been working for me). I was working in maya 2012 late last night and now this morning my objects wont appear in my scene. it's there in the outliner and I still…