hey "ColdWave" sorry 2 hear your having problems with ur maya man. i also encountered something like that 3 to 4 weeks ago, my area blacked out serveral times when i was working on maya, and the worst part is that i coulnt get back my project, even in the temp it was lost, i had to redo the whole lots of parts i lost, i was so pissed off. Then came THIS weird error saying Your Maya had 2 be close cuz of Unknown reason and then i get to buttons 2 click at Report to Autodesk or Close. that error kept on coming for like a week when i opened that project then i decided not 2 use maya for awhile, then i could open the project when i let maya rest but the problem that i started facing after that is that in my scene when i zoom in or out my scene tends to disappear in a very close range zoom. its like my whole project was crushed i had 2 go 2 the previous saves. so im sorry 2 hear u lost ur work but sometimes i just wish that Maya Could Have the Temporary Memory save if your machine suddenly goes off ( Like Microsoft word).. oh well :shakehead