I am working in the Hypershade in Maya 2009. I need to see my place 2d texture nodes for my file textures.
Somehow they seem to have disappeared completely. There are no nodes in the utilities tab, and expanding the network to see inputs and outputs is not showing them either. Has this happened to anyone else? Is this a simple solution that I am overlooking?

One possibility that comes to mind is that you inadvertently enabled a filter (for example, by entering a space in the text field) or by selecting something from the show menu. Click on the button to the left of the text filed if it shows a red triangle to disable the filter.

yes it was a simple dumb mistake. I had “with new texture placement” unchecked. Hoo boy, sorry for wasting server space!

first click the shader in the tab then right click and and select graph network so easy

Naved Ahmad