MasterTracklayer
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I downloaded and installed Trainz22 for Win7 because I wasn`t sure what version of Windows I`m running. I then went on a minor downloading spree with Content Manager. Upon learning about "winver", I discovered that I have Win10, so I downloaded the current build. Each took HOURS to download with my slow slightly-flakey connection. It finally finished downloading, so I decided to make a simple-minded file-copy back-up of my installed Trainz data.
Windows reports that the source directory contains 20,432 items and will take "More than 1 day" to copy.
That is a LOT of VERY SMALL files!
...and I don`t even have a whole lot of content installed. Almost none compared to some of the reports in the Missing KUID thread, and I had downloaded a lot more from the DLS when I was using earlier versions on another computer, but still a drop in the bucket compared to the people I`ve encountered reading that other thread.
How many files in your Trainz data directory, and how do you manage all that content? The features that I relied on heavily in my earlier installs (managing asset keywords in Content Manager without editing the assets) do not exist in Trainz22, and trying to simulate them with Pick Lists seems likely to be extremely unwieldly. Ideas (and content-folder file-counts) anyone?
Edit: After settling down a bit, the file-copy window now reports "About 2 hours", but I am well aware of how that number can fluctuate drastically as the copy process encounters files of wildly-differing sizes. I`ve developed an algorithm that should account for these differences and report more-stable estimated-time-remaining values, but that doesn`t help anyone when I cannot install it in place of the unstable-estimate generators.
Edit 2: Wouldn`t ya know it? While the copy was in progress with around one hour and 20 or 30 minutes, our power flickered /very/ briefly. Now the machine I`m running on is an old laptop with (I think) about 20-30 minutes of operation on a fully-charged battery, so that shouldn`t bother the computer, right? WRONG! The computer flipped a reboot without clean shutdown. Now I`ve gotta clean up the residuum of the attempted copy and try again. Luckily, the *only* other thing I as doing at the time was browsing the messages here, and Google Chrome helpfully offered to re-open all the pages that I had open at the time.
Windows reports that the source directory contains 20,432 items and will take "More than 1 day" to copy.
That is a LOT of VERY SMALL files!
...and I don`t even have a whole lot of content installed. Almost none compared to some of the reports in the Missing KUID thread, and I had downloaded a lot more from the DLS when I was using earlier versions on another computer, but still a drop in the bucket compared to the people I`ve encountered reading that other thread.
How many files in your Trainz data directory, and how do you manage all that content? The features that I relied on heavily in my earlier installs (managing asset keywords in Content Manager without editing the assets) do not exist in Trainz22, and trying to simulate them with Pick Lists seems likely to be extremely unwieldly. Ideas (and content-folder file-counts) anyone?
Edit: After settling down a bit, the file-copy window now reports "About 2 hours", but I am well aware of how that number can fluctuate drastically as the copy process encounters files of wildly-differing sizes. I`ve developed an algorithm that should account for these differences and report more-stable estimated-time-remaining values, but that doesn`t help anyone when I cannot install it in place of the unstable-estimate generators.
Edit 2: Wouldn`t ya know it? While the copy was in progress with around one hour and 20 or 30 minutes, our power flickered /very/ briefly. Now the machine I`m running on is an old laptop with (I think) about 20-30 minutes of operation on a fully-charged battery, so that shouldn`t bother the computer, right? WRONG! The computer flipped a reboot without clean shutdown. Now I`ve gotta clean up the residuum of the attempted copy and try again. Luckily, the *only* other thing I as doing at the time was browsing the messages here, and Google Chrome helpfully offered to re-open all the pages that I had open at the time.
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