Quote from Magnus on 15. October 2019, 13:58

Hi,

Not sure if this counts as a bug, but at least it's an undisered behaviour from maya 🙂

Folders keep appearing in the project folder which looks suspiciously like default maya project folders (also workspace.mel). And as Prism sets the maya project (which is great) it might cause Maya to create folders it cant find...

I did a bit of investigating, and seems like we arenot the only one experiencing this. This is taken from CGTalk, maybe it could be of help:

paultoscaVeteran

Jul '10

I have stumbled upon the same issues as well and editing the projectSetup.mel file doesn’t seem to work when using the Set Project command … maya still creates a scenes / assets folders inside the folder i point to.

However i have looked in the scripts folders and found a createProjectDefaults.mel … made a copy to my scripts folder and commented the following lines

// if( !$foundMayaAscii ) {
// workspace -fr “mayaAscii” “scenes”;
// workspace -dir workspace -q -rootDirectory;
// workspace -cr “scenes”;
// }
// if( !$foundMayaBinary ) {
// workspace -fr “mayaBinary” “scenes”;
// workspace -dir workspace -q -rootDirectory;
// workspace -cr “scenes”;
// }
// if( !$foundTemplates ) {
// workspace -fr “templates” “assets”;
// workspace -dir workspace -q -rootDirectory;
// workspace -cr “assets”;
// }

// Only save the workspace if we added something. We don't want to
// trigger unnecessary workspace changed messages if everything
// was fine.
//
if( !$foundMayaAscii || !$foundMayaBinary || !$foundTemplates ) {
	workspace -dir $curDir;
	workspace -s;
}

}

This prevents maya from creating assets/scenes folders when i change the project folder.

If you want to get rid of the workspace.mel as well you might want to comment the last code lines as well though you will loose any other folders that you might have set up for the current project as mduvekot mentioned above.