@blueodessy:
Thank you, and I hope so; I`ve had enough bad luck in my life that some good luck occasionally is never unwelcome.
Agreed, mine too at the moment, agreed, and bleep certain!
@JCitron:
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Agreed.
I already ran a regular database repair, and all of the errors that I saw looked like nothing an extended repair could possibly fix, except for the type I mentioned wanting to (try to) script.
Expected, which is why I would like to automate as much of it as I can.
I`ve seen that mentioned in the
Wiki. Are any of these tools suitable for use inside a *.bat file or similar? That`s what a script that attempts to automate upgrades would need.
I`ve already installed
JEdit, one of my favorite programmable programmers` editors (if only because I`m already familiar with it), and the current version is too new to run on the latest
Java machine I was able to install. I`ll have to go back and download an older one that
can. Like
Windows,
Gimp is easy to get lost in at first, and I`m not quite ready to learn that, either. I
may have heard of
Paint.net, but I cannot be sure.
Of course, except I`d prefer to not have to learn another text editor if I don`t have to. Command-line programs that can substitute for the graphics editors is more the speed I`m looking for, until I decide to start creating my
own content, anyway.
Yes; deal with the outright errors before being overly concerned about the warnings. I only mentioned them at all as an example of what the repair job (attempted only because I thought Trainz might have screwed with the database while I was trying to deal with flakey-internet-connection issues) had thrown my way; I wasn`t seriously asking for serious help right-here-right-now. General pointers like you provided was the limit of the help I was asking for
here.
Agreed; its only relevance
here is that it is stuff that relates to the number of filesystem objects in my trainzbase: Lots of old stuff in need of repair helps to inflate the number, so SOMEthing is going to have to be done about them, the details of which, I agree, are much better discussed elsewhere. This thread has three main topics, as far as I am concerned: How big people`s trainzbase is, which we have already covered for ourselves, what filters they like/use, and a
superficial discussion of the trials and tribulations of my upgrade. When I finish that, that topic is
dead. The other two need fresh blood to keep the thread alive, so I fear the entire thread will just die when my upgrade finishes. Whatever. No big deal.
Edit: Corrected an offensive spelling of a brand name. Other minor edits.