Backing Up routes

I will be reformating my computer soon because I have too many virisus I found 50 today! But is there any way of backing up my routes I have made so I when I reinstall TRS06 I can put all my old routes on there.

Two simplest ways are to save them to cdp (right click menu option) or open them all for edit, them move the 'Edit' folder somewhere safe...

Put the CDP's on a RW-DVD, or an external hard drive, or on a memory stick for safe keeping

File back ups

Copy Local folder to another hard drive, click on my content tab highlight routes and sessions, right click, save to CDP.

Highlight route, right click, view dependencies, click view in main,select all (ctrl+a) right click, save to CDP

Reformat hard drive and reload, copy local folder back to trainz directory, open contentmanager import CDP files.

Once installed do an extended database repair, I just did this a week ago, all's well.

nzld

Backing up routes

I'm new to Trainz, so maybe I'm confused. I've been copying my local folder to an external hard drive for backup, so if I had to reformat my hard drive, why wouldn't I reinstall Trainz, then copy my local folder from my external HD back to the local folder on C:? Wouldn't this work as well?

schweitzerdude said:

I'm new to Trainz, so maybe I'm confused.

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Wait until you've been around for a while, then you will have alzheimer's...

is that how you spell alzheimer's?

I can't remember........

schweitzerdude said:

I've been copying my local folder to an external hard drive for backup, so if I had to reformat my hard drive, why wouldn't I reinstall Trainz, then copy my local folder from my external HD back to the local folder on C:? Wouldn't this work as well?

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This will work fine most of the time and will back up any downloded assets, but if you upgrade your Trainz version you may have to import the local content rather than just copying it back. If you have spent hundreds of hours creating a route, exporting it as a .cdp file (and putting it in a fireproof safe in Fort Knox) is a good extra backup!

I think "nzld" was just outlining a way to safeguard your data if you do a planned reformat (as opposed to having a disaster).

Cheers

Chris

Thanks itareus

can't have too many backups so I'll do the local folder copy and the export to .cdp as well since I have too much time and effort in my routes to risk losing them. External hard drive space is pretty cheap right now.