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# 1 13-02-2006 , 12:02 AM
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Maya 6.0 crashing

I'm running maya 6.0. This problem started not to long ago but it seems whenever i start making a low poly model after awhile the farther along i get it start bogging down and freezing up. Eventually it gets to the point i can no longer work on the model becuase of performance issues. When i open the model Maya crashes.

This is very frusterating and i was wondering if anyone could give me a few pointers on why this may be happening.

Thanks in advance.

# 2 15-02-2006 , 01:18 PM
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I'm very new to Maya but from one tutorial I have checked out II beleive I seen something in there where he hits Edit>Delete by type>History. He said it can lead to bogging down I think. Which makes since considering it basically saves this stuff maybe so you can edit easily? But try that, hopefully it will work.user added image

# 3 16-02-2006 , 03:49 AM
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Thanks, i did a bit of research after posting that and i found a few things that helped. One of them was clearing the history that way and the other was going into the script editor

window > general editors > script editor

once in there go to: edit > clear all


That seemed to help me out quite a bit. hope it helps other poeple who might have been having the same problem.

# 4 12-04-2007 , 12:04 AM
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Deleting the history actually crashes maya on me. Heheh. But I'm sure if I cleared it more often, it wouldn't be an issue.

I wonder if there are any patches out that help with the crashing problem. Because Maya 7 crashes on my machine constantly, and I've got a brand new machine designed for gaming with 2gb of ram and such. It shouldn't be crashing as much as it does.

# 5 12-04-2007 , 09:39 PM
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Nah, deleting histroy shouldn't have anything to do with Maya not crashing, it has to be something else. Anyways, history is pretty useful so I don't delete it unless i have to. What are your specs?

# 6 13-04-2007 , 03:44 AM
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You should delete your history at set points when your modeling and saving at set points too. The history carries a lot of things with it that slows down your PC and depending on the specs and the complexity of the model can cause maya to crash.


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