Batching kills referencing

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Simple question here, I’m sure.

I’m batching opening and saving a bunch of Maya files. On load I’m setting the -referenceDepth flag to “none”. The problem I’m that even though references are not loaded, if Maya cannot confirm their path, those paths seem forever lost from the file. What I mean by “Maya cannot confirm their path”, is that the referenced file might not be checked into version control or you may not have gotten it prior to running the batch on your machine. Loosing these references is not the behavior that we need :slight_smile:

Anyone know of a working solution to getting around this?

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Btw. I get similar behavior loading and saving the files manually through Maya’s interface.

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So I talked to a few people about this and the general consensus seems to be, check your files into perforce or be damned!

I can see a few paths around this issue, but none that I will try to implement right now, being the only man on the job. So let me know if you have solutions to share :slight_smile:

Sune