 Hi guys, how are we doing? In this video today, what I want to take you through is how to restore Maya to the factory default settings So like having it when you first installed it And the reason I decided to make this video it was I was helping out One of my subscribers Northwest 24 this week and he sent me his File to look out and I helped him out with that But as I was emailing him afterwards. He said that he didn't think Maya was behaving Properly, and he wasn't sure why that was Now when you are new to Maya It's very possible that you will accidentally change a setting or some settings without meaning to there are a lot of keyboard shortcuts Or mouse shortcuts that you can hit without realising and that can cause Maya to do things that you don't expect him But because you've accidentally changed the settings you don't really know what to change back And that's where the problem then lies So what I'm going to show you today is how to put Maya back to factory settings as if it's a fresh install Without having to uninstall it and reinstall it so that you can wipe away any sort of bad settings that you might have put in So to demonstrate that This is just an empty instance of Maya Nothing in the scene But it is at the moment at default You can see I've still got this little green brekkety thing here telling me that this is new because I've just Tested what I'm about to show you So this is currently working at the fault So I'll show you one of the things that people tend to do when I'm teaching is instead of pressing alt and one of the Mouse buttons to move around as I'm doing here They'll accidentally hit space bar and they'll go to move around So they might accidentally click over here and that might then lead to them starting to Take some settings off So maybe it gets rid of that or brings that up or so let's turn some things off. We'll turn off the time slider We'll get rid of the helpline. We'll get rid of Command line I'll turn off the shelves as well So if you imagine I'm a new user to Maya I don't know how I've turned these things off and they are very very simple to turn on I'm just showing you this because it's a simple way of showing you that I've restored it to defaults in a minute But let's imagine that you don't know what you change. You don't know how to change your back So you're like, oh no, it's all wrong. So how do we change it back? Dead easy. So let's imagine that my my is broken. I don't know what I've changed I want to put it back. So the first thing I need to do close Maya Okay Now to do a reset of the factory settings, right? So I don't do it from within Maya what you need to do is Go to your documents folder on your PC You'll there see a Maya folder So you need to go in there and then for whichever version you're using you can see I've got multiple versions installed I'm currently using 2015. So I go in there and within that folder. There's a prefs folder Now it's within that folder there that I've got highlighted That all of the settings for the application are held So if you change any settings The information on that change is held within that folder So the way that you get it to restore in that folder is you hit delete. There you go. That folder's gone And so now there are no settings. So that means that when you now reopen Maya like so And it asks you Well, it depends if you've got a previous version installed in my case It's asking me do I want to copy the preferences from Maya 2013 or shall I create the default preferences? because I want to make sure it's back to Standard settings. I'm gonna tell it to create default preferences and once I tell it to do that and it opens You'll see that all my views and panels are exactly as they were at the beginning of this video before I intentionally broke anything So if I go full screen again, there she is looking beautiful. So This can turn out to be a lifesaver if you've just got a problem You cannot figure out what you've done Sometimes the easiest way is to just bulldoze the whole setting start from scratch And you know that it's clean and it can be a really sort of important stage in troubleshooting I've used this often and it's saved me hours I have now got to a stage where I can fix most of the problems I create Because I'm in getting sort of to the stage where I understand where I broke it But there are still some things that catch me out and I'll just reset it Right. I hope that's been a lifesaver for you if it has Hit the thumbs up button. 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