INSTALLATION Q & A's
Due to many reasons, country restrictions, administrative access, firewalls, internet, or even just the spec of the PC,  there have been reports of the following errors.  Please Contact me if you run into any errors that is not listed below.

• Instant Crash without any error messages in Maya​  

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• # URLError: file C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2020\bin\python27.zip\urllib2.py line 1197: <urlopen error [Errno 10060] >

 

• # Error: URLError: file D:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2022\Python37\lib\urllib\request.py line 1321: <urlopen error [WinError 10060]

 

• # Error: URLError: file C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2023\Python\lib\urllib\request.py line 1349: <urlopen error [WinError 10054]

 

•  # URLError: file C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2020\bin\python27.zip\urllib2.py line 1197: <urlopen error [Errno 10013] An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions> #

 

• # Error: ImportError: file <maya console> line 8: Bad magic number in “your path\xgToolsUI_user.pyc”

 

• # Error: ImportError: file <maya console> line 1: Bad magic number in “xgtc” : b'a\r\r\n'

 

• PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\\Program Files\\Autodesk\\Maya2022\\scripts\\xgtc\\xgTools_user.py'

 

• ModuleNotFoundError: file C:/Users/blues/....py line 13: No module named 'xgToolsUI_user_sub'

  

•  # Error: NameError: file C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2020\Python\lib\site-packages\pymel\core\__init__.py line 77: name 'windows' is not defined

 

• ​ # Error: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX

 

• Error: ​<urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1129)>

 

• MAC User: ​ Error: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer cerficiate (_ssl.c:1076)>

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