Hi guys, everybody know that before crashing Maya save the file we are working on so we can use it again once Maya has restarted. I had no problem with that since I worked with windows, but now that I switched to mac I´m not able to find it.
I can see, before Maya´s crashing, on the command line that Maya is writing somewhere the file (date.myname.ma). But even if i search with Spotlight nothing happen, seems that the file doesn´t even exist.

Does anyone know where?
Thanks in advance!

check the console messages

I meant the The OS X Console application. /Applications/Utilities/Console.app

On the Mac, if the environment variable TMPDIR is not set by the user, the OS will generate a really long hidden directory name for use as and set TMPDIR to that.  Maya uses the setting of TMPDIR to write out the saved scene file.

In a terminal window, one can cd $TMPDIR to go directly to that directory

before running Maya, set TMPDIR to point somewhere you can easily navigate to, and have sufficient free disk space

Open the terminal /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app
You’ll see something like

after the $ sign type

the terminal will come back with something like

highlight that, press command c to copy.

Open the finder, then press shift command g and place your cursor where it says Go to the folder, and press command v. Then press Go.

By default, I believe they get saved to /Users/(username)/Documents/temp

n8skow [FA]

I don’t know why Maya makes user’s life harder by lacking really simple things like this one!

- There should be an option in the Preferences, where users could set a specific directory for saving recovery files.
- AND also put that file at the top of the “File / Recent Files” sub-menu when a crash occurs.

Sometimes it’s hard for me to believe this program has lived for 10 years, without this kind of options… it’s almost like if nobody was using the program.
The point is: You should not be a systems expert to work in 3D!!

I have Maya 2012 and this info really safe my tail today. Thanks :)