I've had that error before, and was something with arnold crashing, the alembic files were not really the cause of the error, and I only had it in the farm also, so maybe check your configuration for arnold on the farm, I can't remember exactly what was the culprit but it happened when I upgrade arnold. Here is also a thread that talks about this.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/exocortex-alembic/j4FhGcVaToU On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Eric Thivierge <[email protected]> wrote: > Hopefully your geometry isn't that heavy... > > 1. Select the mesh. > 2. Freeze Modeling (Make sure alembic topo op gets frozen) > 3. Use the Animate > Tools > Plot > Shape. > 4. Delete Alembic PolyMesh Op off of the mesh. > > Eric T. > > > On 3/19/2015 8:58 AM, Morten Bartholdy wrote: > > Hmm - does someone here know - is it possible to clone the alembic > geometry and bake it to shapes, effectively making the geometry local in > the scene? > > > Morten > > > > > > > Den 19. marts 2015 kl. 13:45 skrev "Leendert A. Hartog" > <[email protected]> <[email protected]>: > > > This won't help you any, I'm afraid (sorry), > > but, if I am reading this correctly, this appears to be a known issue > > with Alembic: > > https://code.google.com/p/alembic/issues/detail?id=336 > > > > Greetz > > Leendert > > > > -- > > > > Leendert A. Hartog AKA Hirazi Blue > > Administrator NOT the owner of si-community.com > > > > >

