Deleting a built-in in T:ANE

[nfitzsimmons]

I have a problem.

A few days back I downloaded and installed an old loco/tender pack. Wasn't until I'd completed the install that I discovered that a couple of the items re-used the kuids originally used by Auran for built-in assets. This resulted in a number of other assets now showing up as faulty because of an invalid or missing asset. I have re-download the built-in original assets from the DLS, but I can't re-install them because there is a "later version" installed. When I try to install them everything appears to work fine, but the only one that appears in CM is the bad one.

I now have a number of "broken" items that were fine until this happened.

Is there anything I can do about this?

 

[clam1952]

Clone the updated builtin kuid so you can substitute your clones for the problem dependencies then delete the ones that were reused and do a database repair, so Trainz knows they are no longer there which should restore things to normal.

 

[nfitzsimmons]

The problem with that is that the only kuid that shows up in CM is the bad one. Not sure how I can clone the other one if I can't see it.

I really, really hate doing a database rebuild because every time I do it "fixes" some of the older assets I've repaired to work in T:ANE, and then I need to go back and repair them again. Getting to be sort of a drag. Mostly because the repairs are mainly to recreate the now-missing .txt files.

In the end I think I may have shot myself in the foot because beginning with Trainz 2009, every time I buy a newer version I keep going back and repairing faulty assets from the previous versions(s). Slowly that is becoming impossible.

 

[clam1952]

You clone the bad one then delete it the original builtin is still there, right click show asset versions, and run the database repair.

Edit: You may not need to run the DBR, restarting Trainz might fix it. Never had a DBR unfix anything I've repaired, that's an odd one.

 

[nfitzsimmons]

That appears to have fixed it. As far as needing to repair faulty assets a second time, I don't know what that's about. I do know that the ones that went bad I had already fixed once, because they were missing texture.txt files. Fixed them with Pev's tool. Then I had to fix them a second time because they had disappeared again.