a little knowledge is a dangerous thing - lost route

[Gary25b]

I had the Winter UMR2010 route running just fine, base session installed.

So I wanted to make the portals create trains. Read a tutorial on that. Went into surveyor, and couldn't access the portal properties by editing session, so I edited route, went to the objects pullout, selected properties, then a portal. I changed the portal to allow creation of new trains, added a consist, then did a save. The save prompt said, I believe, 'create new route,' so like an idiot I hit ok.

Now I have the UMR2010 route created by me, that has no base session. No sessions at all, and the old UMR2010 route is completely gone.

Is there any way I can retrieve the neilsmith version of the route? Besides doing another two day download?

 

[stagecoach]

You wont have a two day download. When you first downloaded it all the assets needed would have been downloaded with it. A second download of the route will only download the map as all the assets are already installed. The old route should still be there, look in CMP.

Look in CMP and see if the session of the original route is there, if so open for edit and change the map kuid to that of your newly created one. Once you open a downloaded map and do any changes it will save as a new map under your kuid. When you use a base session save the route as a different name and do all your alterations on that route. Always open in surveyor from the session and not the route only.

 

[Vern]

I have noticed a couple of times in TS2010 trying to create sessions, despite working in the session layer, the programme has insisted on trying to save the route as well.

You then end up with a cloned copy which has none of the original sessions, although in my case the original route was still present. Then to rub salt in the wound, the "new" session I'd created was nowhere to be seen, on going back in to edit none of the placed rolling stock or instructions were present.

Not sure whether this is a bug or "design feature" but surely the whole point of the layers is that in addition to normal saving of sessions which don't alter the route you could also add 3D objects, change textures etc. within the route but they would not update the core route - only apply changes when that session is run.

 

[Gary25b]

I got the route restored as stagecoach advised. Thx. I too have had a frustrating time being able to save a session layer, without having to save the route, and rename it.