All is lost?

[clam1952]

I take it there is actually a mapfile.gnd file?

Tutorial would depend on what you used to make the mapfile.gnd with? The Dem is what you use Microdem or Transdem to create the mapfile.gnd from if thats in the route then assuming there is nothing wrong with it it should work.

Might want to right click and show errors and warnings in case there is something obviously missing?

 

[trainz999]

Thanks Malc for pointing that out. I had inadvertently created a folder within a folder that contained the "mapfile.gnd". The "mapfile.gnd" file was not in the parent folder. When Trainz looked in the parent folder it did not see mapfile.gnd because it doesn't look in the child folder with the duplicate name.

Thanks very much for getting me through this!

Ron

 

[trainz999]

I've upgraded to TANE and I am starting my new hometown layout. I lost about 2 years of work from my first attempt of my layout when I upgraded my PC back in 2013. Now armed with a new PC and both a solid state and conventional hard drive, I would like to back up my 2nd attempt. Ultimately, I would like to "clone" the entire TANE program (not the entire hard drive) and all of my route files as a complete package as opposed to saving only the components of my new route. If that is possible, is there an easy step by step method to clone "everything" relative to TANE to my 2nd drive as a complete package? In the event of a crash or data loss, all I would need to do is access my 2nd drive and continue on.
I'm using Windows 10 Intel Core i7-6700 CPU @ 3.4GHz 16G Ram 64bit
1TB drive and 500GB SSD G Force GTX 745 graphics
Any suggestion would be much appreciated.
Thanks,

Ron

 

[blueodessey]

You know, after reading what happened to you in 2013, I just remembered that I haven't backed up my Trainz TS-12 in probably 4-6 months, so seeing as I have an extra spare External Drive from getting rid of bunch of Old Computers, it's definitely time again if not very late to do as master backup.

I hope your route works out better for you, sorry to hear about the losses of Files.

I started with Dos 2.0 (Circa 1986 with a 286SX 32 Bit CPU, 1/4 Meg Memory, 10 Meg, Disk, don't laugh, that was state of art computers back then, oh and a Dot Matrix Printer, cost 2600$ if I recall correctly) way long before Windows came along the scene, and Computers have only gotten more complicated as well as Program compatibility, oh what fun.

Also would add, upgrading window, well it's like a Box of Chocolates, you never know what your going to get, well for me some type of unexpected result + headache.

Best of luck in your new endeavor Sir.

 

[JCitron]

You know, after reading what happened to you in 2013, I just remembered that I haven't backed up my Trainz TS-12 in probably 4-6 months, so seeing as I have an extra spare External Drive from getting rid of bunch of Old Computers, it's definitely time again if not very late to do as master backup.

I hope your route works out better for you, sorry to hear about the losses of Files.

I started with Dos 2.0 (Circa 1986 with a 286SX 32 Bit CPU, 1/4 Meg Memory, 10 Meg, Disk, don't laugh, that was state of art computers back then, oh and a Dot Matrix Printer, cost 2600$ if I recall correctly) way long before Windows came along the scene, and Computers have only gotten more complicated as well as Program compatibility, oh what fun.

Also would add, upgrading window, well it's like a Box of Chocolates, you never know what your going to get, well for me some type of unexpected result + headache.

Best of luck in your new endeavor Sir.

You might find a nifty utility called Fastcopy very helpful for this.

https://ipmsg.org/tools/fastcopy.html.en

It's very easy to use, and gets around all that calculating part of the copying process.

Backups are a rather important thing which are also very, very neglected. I got burned about 6 years ago now due to a power supply taking out my motherboard and two hard drives. In the process I lost everything accept for my Trainz content, which for some reason was okay. (Whew!) But anyway, I lost important documents, and many years of mail archives because I was playing Russian Roulette with my hard drives and backups. The thing is I should have known better being an IT guy at the time who was responsible for day-to-day operations of multiple file servers, an MS-Exchange 5.5 server, and an MS SQL server. All these systems were backed up daily until the company closed in 2009. Shame on me for being careless with my own data!

I started with CP/M running on a Z-80 system before moving to MS-DOS 2.0. I was very confused because of the similarity. Eventually DOS became more familiar and CP/M had me confused. My first printer was an Epson RX-80 which I gave to my cousin because he was printing mailing labels, and I moved on to an HP 550C DeskJet. He's used the printer up until last year, which means it ran for over 30 years without a problem. It's a testament to the quality of the older hardware, and how crappy stuff is made today. The old HP printer was brought to work and used in the chemistry lab to print out plots because their old one died. That printer too was about 10 years old at the time and operated until the company closed in 2009.

Don't under-estimate Windows 10. It's not as bad as the press made it out to be, but just like any upgrade ensure you have good backups prior to doing anything. The interface is more like Windows 7 than it is Windows 8.x except it has a lot more good things along with it.

I agree things have gotten more complex but then again I've gotten a bit older too and now get confused when I use the TV remote. I think that comes with age... Eventually I'll be calling up my nephew to come over and straighten me out when I can't turn the TV on!

 

[trainz999]

Thanks for the heads up on Fast Copy! All I would need to know is exactly what files (folder) I would need to copy?
Would you know?
Thanks again
Ron

 

[trainz999]

Yes, I am an PC old timer. I started with TRS 80 - Z80 processor along with the expansion interface with 2 floppy drives, Windows 1.0, and 32K RAM (I still have that system and the original 1.0 OS disk)

Now I back up all my important files at least once!

Ron

 

[JCitron]

Thanks for the heads up on Fast Copy! All I would need to know is exactly what files (folder) I would need to copy?
Would you know?
Thanks again
Ron

Yes... Don't worry about the program its self so all we need to grab is the data.

T:ANE puts the data in the default (yuck) Microsoft location under C:\Users\(your username)\App Data\Local\N3V GAMES\etc. Sigh...!

To find out where what the exact folder is, start T:ANE and go to settings on the Launcher. In there go to the Install tab at the top.

Highlight that path, press CTRL+C to copy and paste that into Fast Copy source window.

Hope this helps.

John

 

[trainz999]

I'll do that.
Thanks for the help John!

 

[Jayco-man]

And all this to get Windows 8. Why didn't you go for Windows 10? Ive done three updates to Windows 10 with no problem. Sorry to here you had problems.