Confuused About File Referencing

[rgkovach]

I am curious if the behavior i'm seeing concerning how maya saves file reference data in a .ma file is working as intended or not.

When I look at a .ma file in a text editor, i see this:

CODE
createNode reference -n "noBugRN";
setAttr ".ed" -type "dataReferenceEdits" "noBugRN" "noBugRN" 0;
setAttr ".ptag" -type "string" "";
lockNode;

the lockNode command requires arguments, so its curious that there is a call to the commnad with no arguments.
this doesn't cause any issues when opening the file, bit I try to import, Maya throws a warning, expecting arguments, and stops importing the rest of the file.

Is it normal for Maya to save lockNode calls in the ASCII file?
I'm using Maya 2008.
Thanks.

[gmask]

Hmm yeah i dunno but you coudl just delete the command and then try importing

[madmin]

As I recall, Maya doesn't like it when you try to import a file that contains references. And I didn't look into it because making a copy of that file and importing other things into it is one way around and the alternative would be to reference the file in and then convert it to an 'import' in the ref' editor (and delete namespace)... not sure if that's what you're up against but if you come up with something else, let us know....