hi, I am on a mac (dual 2 ghz powerpc g5) using maya 8.5. My (tiff) batch render starts and it says "percentage of rendering done: 0 (doing frame 1)", the usual deal, but it freezes there and never makes any progress. I have left this on overnight and nothing changed. I have done a similar batch render [in the past] with less available space on my computer at the time. I have tried the following:
restart computer
restart maya
make new scene and import the old one
checking directory and path, changing directory and path
Rendering only a few frames
rendering under different file types
checking related threads looking for a solution

I do not have any other versions of maya installed

Any input regarding this post will be greatly appreciated.