If you don’t use Arnold, but someone has saved your scene files with MtoA loaded, then you’ll get some errors and warnings when you open that scene without MtoA.

// Error: line 0: The camera 'perspShape' has no 'ai_translator' attribute. // 
// Error: line 0: Node "perspShape" has no attribute "ai_translator". // 
// Error: line 0: The camera 'topShape' has no 'ai_translator' attribute. // 
// Error: line 0: Node "topShape" has no attribute "ai_translator". // 
// Error: line 0: The camera 'frontShape' has no 'ai_translator' attribute. // 
// Error: line 0: Node "frontShape" has no attribute "ai_translator". // 
// Error: line 0: The camera 'sideShape' has no 'ai_translator' attribute. // 
// Error: line 0: Node "sideShape" has no attribute "ai_translator". // 
// Error: line 0: The mesh 'pPlaneShape1' has no 'ai_translator' attribute. // 
// Error: line 0: Node "pPlaneShape1" has no attribute "ai_translator". // 
// Error: line 0: The mesh 'pSphereShape1' has no 'ai_translator' attribute. // 
// Error: line 0: Node "pSphereShape1" has no attribute "ai_translator". // 
// Error: line 0: The mesh 'pCubeShape1' has no 'ai_translator' attribute. // 
// Error: line 0: Node "pCubeShape1" has no attribute "ai_translator". // 
// Warning: line 0: Unrecognized node type for node 'defaultArnoldRenderOptions'; preserving node information during this session. // 
// Warning: line 0: Unrecognized node type for node 'defaultArnoldFilter'; preserving node information during this session. // 
// Warning: line 0: Unrecognized node type for node 'defaultArnoldDriver'; preserving node information during this session. // 
// Warning: line 0: Unrecognized node type for node 'defaultArnoldDisplayDriver'; preserving node information during this session. //

Here’s how to remove all the MtoA (aka Arnold) attributes and nodes.

First, don’t load MtoA. Uninstall MtoA.

Now, just loading and saving your scene will get rid of the ai_translator attributes. All that’s left to do is get rid of the unknown nodes. There’s just four (assuming nobody created any Arnold shaders or lights or standins in the scene): the four defaultArnold nodes:

ls -typ "unknown";
// Result: defaultArnoldDisplayDriver defaultArnoldDriver defaultArnoldFilter defaultArnoldRenderOptions //

Here’s a MEL script to remove all unknown MtoA nodes from a scene:

string $mtoaNodes[] = `ls -typ "unknown"`;

for ($node in $mtoaNodes){
	if (`objExists $node` && `unknownNode -q -p $node` == "mtoa"){
		print("Deleting mtoa node " + $node + "\n");
		delete $node;
	}
}