Where Can I Find The Recovered Files? Maya2008 Mac Crash

[no6i]

On my MBP2.16 both Maya 8.5 and 2008 always crash unexpectedly.
But with 8.5 on OS X 10.4, I always found the recovered file maya created upon crashing by using Spotlight.

Things are not the same with 2008 on OS X 10.5...
Spotlight found nothing and even I manually dig through my harddrive, it's nowhere = ="

Anyone have an idea, where to look for it?
I think it should be in my Home:Document:TEMP or Home:Document:Maya:TEMP.
But there were no TEMP folder in that directory

Do I have to create TEMP folder myself, so Maya can find the place to save?
or any further setting required?

[sbailey]

I have the same problem

Cant find the crash save file (.ma) maya saves when it crashes on a Mac (OSX).

Simon

[evadceivorus]

hey guys I had this problem to and it was driving me crazy. I finally found this.
http://www.andrewandoru.com/2009/02/20/labs-maya-recover/

if in Finder you do "Go>GoToFolder" you can get to your hidden folder that the link above talks about.

[bakpost]

Life saver! I wondered what I was doing wrong, perhaps this relief tells me my Maya crashes too often!?

[andrew-hake]

Hey all, glad to see this is useful for people.

Make sure to read that post. If the smart folder does not find your file, you can likely still find it following the instructions.

-andrew