Hello new user here. I'm generating HDAs to use in Maya. I've ran into a few instances of making a change to an HDA that is in current use in Maya that causes Maya to crash. Once this happens I can no longer open this Maya scene. I get no warnings, just a fatal error. I can start to make edits to the .ma file however I'm looking for a better way to work around this. I would like to restore all my settings found in my HDAs in my Maya scene.

Maya 2020
Plug-in version 4.2(API:8)

Thanks,

-Chad