cannot reinstall 2010

[Sean_lee]

ok the story so far my last route went feral after 12months of work. so okdeleted route and trainz and went for reinstall so far so good installes again. thought i would do the patch this is where it went feral again.
JA converter.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close.
Ready to install from local patch file.
Current version: 42203.

Checking for available disk space for patching.
Unpacking patch file...
Patching from 42203 to 44088...

An unknown error (-1073741819) occurred while patching file builtin\4.ja
Failed to restore backup file C:\Program Files\Auran\TS2010\builtin\4.ja

Failed to apply the patch: 42203_to_44088
Patching aborted. what now?????

ok advise so far is reinstall again as a dodgy patch attempt will corrupt trainz, Well its gone feral again and will not now reinstall as it says the source file is corrupted. sometimes with disc one sometimes with disc two i have had so many attempts at this i am losing count and patience.
Can anyone throw a lifeline idea, oh and by the way , ill go for reinstall number 9.
cheers all.

 

[sniper297]

Make sure you have enough disk space, prep your computer before reinstalling;

http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showpost.php?p=793644&postcount=8

After you reinstall, copy the entire TS2010 folder to a backup folder. That way if the patch fails you can delete the TS2010 folder that the patch corrupted, copy the good backup in, and try again. Check AGAIN that you still have enough free disk space before running the patch, the patch uses a lot of temporary files so at least 10 gigs free after making the backup copy. AFTER the patch is finished, THEN install addons, DO NOT install a bunch of addons before patching because that's what it chokes on - all the faulty and missing dependency assets take forever to process. The patch will appear to stop halfway, LEAVE IT ALONE, it's checking files for about an hour even with only default files.

A word on route development - once a day or so I open content manager, select my route, save to CDP in a backup folder. Each backup gets a different name, the date - today's backup is 0806.cdp, if that turns out to be faulty I can delete it and import 0805.cdp or 0723.cdp or whatever is the most recent backup that still works. You don't have to be that crazy, but at least do it once a week. Whatever goes wrong you can't lose 12 months of work if you have backups of your work.

 

[Sean_lee]

ok thanks for that, and low and behold reinstall attempt number 9 worked???
and aint gonna touch that patch with a length of bullhead rail. once again thanks.