ok, I'll have someone take a look. thanks On 30 August 2017 at 10:18, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES II] <j.ponthi...@nasa.gov> wrote: > No, unfortunately I'm not confused about this. > > If you build a scene, save that scene, there is no lingering copy clipboard > file still resident in the temp directory, and you never hit CTRL-C, hitting > CTRL-V while in the Outliner rereads the same exact scene you are currently > in, and had just saved, back into itself. > > It then begins telling me with via the progress bar, that the scene I had > just saved, in my particular case with all 40,000+ objects, is now being read > into the working scene. > > Which means my scene now has two iterations of itself present in the scene > after it is finished. > > The repro steps for this are here: > > https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-forum/ctrl-v-reads-a-copy-of-the-scene-into-itself/m-p/7329534#M46237 > > The point of this "feature" was apparently to facilitate the copying of > objects across independent Maya sessions. But the cutCopyPaste.mel appears to > be caching the current scene name and decides to use that instead if copy has > never been executed prior to the paste or if no clipboard file is available > and found. It just summarily, and without warning, proceeds to "paste" the > saved scene back into itself. > > The upshot is that CTRL-V assumes an input that was never given it by the > user. > > I'm not sure why in the world I would ever want it to do that when I can use > "import" to explicitly re-read the scene, or explicitly perform a copy&paste > on the active scene hierarchy, to accomplish the same result. > > Instead it is an uncalled for action that has the potential to cause severe > loss of data. Which is what happened in my case, because when I went to > delete the 40,000+ extra copies that I did not need, it was still trying to > delete them a day later. > > Joey > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com > [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Luc-Eric > Rousseau > Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2017 9:51 AM > To: Official Softimage Users Mailing List. > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/xsi_list > <softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> > Subject: Re: What were they thinking.... > >> Ctrl-V executes a scene read, of the currently saved scene into the >> existing scene This happens if you are in the outliner >> Its basically the equivalent of import scene > > I think you're confused about this one. Ctrl+V is just the "paste" > command and the clipboard is implemented by saving objects when you press > ctrl+C, and later importing objects on paste from a temp scene. > Exactly the same as it is XSI. The only thing new here is that a progress > bar was added to the outliner to show progress when there is a massive number > of nodes added, and the log window will say something "scene read in 1s" or > something, which may be confusing you. > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with > "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with > "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
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