I am an expert user of 3DSMax.
I am beginner user of Maya 2010.
I want to know:

1) Where maya saves the incremental autobackup files? In what folder?

3DSMax saves these files in the default root folder with this Path:

C:\Documents and Settings\Dario\My Documents\3dsmax\autoback

In Maya, I have Set my Project Folder named “Maya_2010_Project”, but in this root folder I haven’t see any “scenes” folder that want it contains the autobackup incremental files…

2) But is this the default destination folder for autobackup files?

3) What extension uses Maya, for saving backup scene files?

Thanks in advance for a response!
Horsepower.

Somehow you seem to assume that Maya does autobackup all by itself. It doesn’t. The reason you can’t find any backup files is probably that they do not exist. If you enabled incremental save, you still need to save the file yourself. The incremental files are then saved in a folder called incrementalSave/filename and are called filename.****.m[a-b] . All this is in the scenes folder of your active project.

Maya 2011 finally offers autoback but it is not active by default.  You need to go to window>settings and preferences > preferences > Files/Projects and check the Enable in the AutoSave section.  You can limit the number of files to save, the interval in minutes, and assign a folder if not the currently set project.

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That would have saved me 8 hours if i knew it wasnt on.