Fur Q: cannot attach fur description

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I opened a Maya Unlimited scene into Maya complete and now when I try to go back to Maya U/L, the fur is missing. So I try to add a new fur preset but I get the error:
// Error: No object matches name: defaultFurGlobals.equalMap //

What does this mean? How can I fix this? Right now, I cannot add a new fur description until I fix this error.

Any help would be very much appreciated! Thanks

[papa]

Is the fur plugin loaded?

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Is the fur plugin loaded?
Hi Papa,
Yes, the plug-in is loaded. All else seems to be fine too. Not sure what is happening.

Things I have tested:

- Fur loads in other scenes and new scenes, just not this one.
- Plug-in is loaded
- Will not load onto a new object in that scene, same error
- Tried to make a new fur description but won't allow me, same error again.


So it seems something is corrupted with this one particular file but I don't know how/where to correct it. Since the file is fully animated, I don't want to abandon it at all.

Options:
A. Fix current file
or
B. transfer animation to a file where the character has fur [don't know how to do this though :( ]

Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated!
Thanks so much.

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UPDATE: I imported the scene into a new scene, and now I can add a new fur description. So I have fur in the scene. But when I render, it still doesn't appear. So I am partially ahead.

Fur is in scene, but doesn't render [during render, it doesn't appear that fur is even calculated.] Any suggestion greatly appreciated!