Currupt MB fixes?

I haven’t seen this in years but I have an artist that has a new mb file that suddenly corrupted. It seems to have also corrupted a number of his backups as well. I am trying to get to the data to recover any possible work. I also kill Maya when opening up any of the crash ma files that Maya saved and have even tried to do a mayabatch to convert it to ma without the UI in case it was an opengl issue. Any other suggestions?

MO

if it is a MB, not much you can do. If it is a MA, you can look at it in a text editor.
The first thing I do when I open a MA in a text editor, is go to the bottom of the file and ensure it isn’t truncated.
You may need something like VIM to open the MA if it is very large.

[QUOTE=rgkovach123;24045]if it is a MB, not much you can do. If it is a MA, you can look at it in a text editor.
The first thing I do when I open a MA in a text editor, is go to the bottom of the file and ensure it isn’t truncated.
You may need something like VIM to open the MA if it is very large.[/QUOTE]

These were definitely .mb files. I have also looked into the .ma files saved when Maya crashes.

MO

This is one of the reasons why we have a strict .ma only policy on our team. (I know that’s of no help, sorry.)