seeing as there wasn't another post on this and being almost a year old i am guessing it has been solved. But anyways I use the paie script for exporting out animation from one file and importing it onto another file. http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/animation/c/paie hope this helps somebody
Why does the programmer need all the animations in one file? The fact that the unity documentation suggests this is a good way to work (I have read this myself) is astounding imo. If you're working on a large scale game with more than one animator that is just completely unworkable. If it must be compiled into one…