Can't Overwrite "Read-Only"

[NJCurmudgeon]

I tried the above suggestions and it worked for one Surveyor session. I did some more work on the route today and have just lost a half hour's worth of effort to the exact same problem as before.

The frustration factor with Trainz is really starting to far, far outweigh the fun factor. After over a year of trying to work with this program, I am having a hard time coming to any other conclusion than the software itself is way too buggy.

 

[JCitron]

I tried the above suggestions and it worked for one Surveyor session. I did some more work on the route today and have just lost a half hour's worth of effort to the exact same problem as before.

The frustration factor with Trainz is really starting to far, far outweigh the fun factor. After over a year of trying to work with this program, I am having a hard time coming to any other conclusion than the software itself is way too buggy.

At least for you it only took a year. I've been at this a lot longer and also came to the same conclusion! I'm either too dumb or too slow to know the difference! Actually now that I'm thinking about it, It wasn't always this bad. I think the last round of patches, updates, and so-called "fixes" to TS12 ruined a good product.

Maybe, oh maybe the next generation will be so much better.

John

 

[PerRock]

I regularly have this issue, and while it's true, just hitting ok and hoping that it saved usually works. I've found that it seems to only happen after Trainz has auto-saved the route. Something with the Auto-saving seems to cause this bug (on my system).

peter

 

[pware]

... Something with the Auto-saving seems to cause this bug (on my system).

... and in my system as well. I found that after the "Failure to save .. " message, I simply save again - this time only the session is re-saved (not the route) and it has, so far, solved the problem.

 

[jkfrench]

I am running Windows 7 as Administrator. Here's the thing - I was able to save the route and session earlier. This was the second or third time I went to save. Nothing should have changed. I have MalwareBytes, but it isn't scanning anything (it launches a window when it is doing a scheduled scan).

Just wanted to chime in (albeit a bit late in the game) ...

You said you are running Windows 7 as Administrator ... Shane said to make sure you are running Trainz as administrator ... the two statements aren't equivalent ... i.e. Just because you are running Windows 7 as a user with Administrator privileges DOES NOT mean you are running Trainz as administrator (although you would certainly think that would be the case ... but it's NOT necessarily).

Have you manually (or used Shane's Permission Generating Tool to) set all of the .exe files in the Trainz bin directory to Run As Administrator by default? If not, I would highly recommend that you do so ... and if that doesn't help ... you can try changing the Ownership of the Trainz directory ... but you really shouldn't have to go to that extreme with Vista or Windows 7 ... Windows 8+ ... maybe.

 

[mtldrm38]

I turned auto save off and haven't had that problem since....