I ran into a problem in maya 2010 w/ zooNameSpacey. Trying to remove a namespace didn’t work and all the objects in the Root namespace would get renamed. In fixing that, I found that it also gives errors tyring to rename shape nodes. I don’t have the time to actually fix that, but I hacked a solution by just not renaming nodes that inherit “shape”. Those are automatically renamed by the rename command anyway, so this seems to work. There’s probably some case where it doesn’t, I haven’t really put this through any rigorous testing or thought. My modified code is below. Cheers!

global proc zooNameSpaceyRemove( string $space )
{
string $buffer[] = {};
string $parentSpace = `zooNameSpaceyNavigate -up $space`;
string $prefixSpace = $parentSpace == “”? “”: $parentSpace+”:”;
string $subSpaces[] = `zooGetRecursedNamespaces $space`;

namespace -set ( “:” + $parentSpace );
$subSpaces = `zooReverseArray_str $subSpaces`;
for( $sub in $subSpaces ) {
// I removed the colon from “:*” below to fix first the problem.
select -r -ne `ls -l ( “:” + $sub + “*” )`;
while( size( `ls -sl` ))
{
string $obj[] = `ls -l -sl`;
select -d -ne $obj[0];

clear $buffer;
int $numToks = `tokenize $obj[0] “:” $buffer`;
lockNode -l 0 $obj[0];
// Check object inheritance here to avoid renaming shape nodes
string $inherits[] = `nodeType -i $obj[0]`;
if( zooGetIdxOfElement_str( $inherits, “shape” ) == -1 )
{
rename $obj[0] ( $prefixSpace + $buffer[( $numToks-1 )] );
}
}

catch( `namespace -removeNamespace ( “:” + $sub )` );
}

namespace -set ( “:” + $parentSpace );
}