Linked files in Max - please help!

[HappyScamp]

Hi, I'm sure this problem will be easy for most of you.

I have been sent a Max file to edit, it is in VRay (don't think that point is important)

 

It seems to have been built out of several different Max files which are then linked into this one somehow. I have tried to select objects but I can't. When I hover over them it comes up with a yellow box saying {filename} in.

 

My question is, how do I select these components? For example one is a {ceiling} and I would like to remove the ceiling but as I can't select it I have no idea how. Can anyone please help me?

 

Thank you!

[Victor Erthal]

could those be x-ref scenes?

[HappyScamp]

I'm not sure what that means?? Sorry!

[datacrasher]

You should able to select the objects Unless they are made in the layers if this is so then you need to go into the layer manager to select the objects but you wont able to delete them

[Victor Erthal]

to find out go to the max menu (the big max icon that replaced the file menu) and choose references, xref scenes

a dialog window will pop up. check if there are any files listed in the window. w-refs are a simple way to collaborate with a team. you reference other files into a scene so that other can work on different files and it all is put together in one central file. the caveat is that you cannot select the x-xref scene (except when it is the x-ref object). to get rid of this you should highlight all the files in the x-ref window and click merge.

That, of course if you indeed have x-refs in your scene.