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twidup

07-12-2003, 05:56 AM

I am working on a small script for a friend to handle some reference swapping and saving out backup copies of the scene.

file -rn ("Scenes/Backups/"+$sceneName+".orig.mb");
file -s -typ "mayaBinary";

That is the part of the script that is causing problems.
When I run it, it saves out the scene as .orig.orig.mb

Any ideas why it is adding the .orig in twice?

-Todd

mark_wilkins

07-12-2003, 08:56 AM

Because $sceneName has .orig in it already for some reason?

galactor

07-12-2003, 08:33 PM

if $sceneName is an array, you should clear it before those two lines.

:: Galactor ::

twidup

07-13-2003, 12:47 AM

nope and nope. But those are 2 things that I should be checking.

$sceneName is a tokenized string. I did manage to track it down shortly after posting. It dealt with having the .mb at the end. As soon as I removed that, it was ok and saved correctly.

mark_wilkins

07-13-2003, 01:08 AM

the moral to the story is that we can't help you debug with only a fraction of the script and no information on the input on which it's run.

-- Mark

twidup

07-13-2003, 05:47 AM

Thanks Mark,
yeah, I should have posted a bit more about some of the variables and such.

I do appecriate the questions and hints too :)

-Todd

mark_wilkins

07-13-2003, 06:36 AM

No problem... people here are usually happy to help but it's hard when important details are left out! :D

-- Mark

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