Issue with alembic and standIn, maya 2020

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone,

does anybody know why Maya 2020 won't let me overwrite .abc file that is already loaded as aiStandin? It seems that standIn locks the .abc file. It worked well when I tried with GPU cache instead.

I've got - "Error: Can't write to file: ...path", and I even have to close Maya in order to overwrite or delete that file, new scene is not enough.

And to mention, it worked well in Maya 2018.

Thanks

[Stephen.Blair]

It could be the code that gets the file contents from the abc files. I don't know for sure, but I've opened a ticket for this.

I've assumed you're on Windows.

Same problem in Maya 2018, if you're using the same version of MtoA.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Stephen,

you're right, that working version was much older MtoA version, I think 3.2

It's on Windows.

[Anonymous]

Hi, any news about this? I can see the issue is still there. Cheers.