Construction: Items that change or disappear from the road???

[martrain]

For some time now, I've been building my model railway. I make sure to save my work often. At first, I created a section of my track, and now I'm building the scenery around it.

Today, I got a nasty surprise!

What happened to my already built layout?

After several days of building and repeated saves, I went back to check my tracks, and BAM! I was stunned. Some things I had placed were missing (completely gone), and others had been completely replaced with other assets!

Look at my screenshots to see the difference!

Image 1 - This was save file 101 (Correct)
Image 2 - This was save file 123.

In this last one, my speed signs were transformed into another asset that I don't use. My turnout heaters and signals have disappeared.

What could have happened and how can we get everything back?

NOTE: There have been many changes between 101 and 123.

I hope I don't lose any work time.

Thanks, Martin

 

[Forester1]

Those red and black squares must mean something is still there, I hope someone responds that can tell us what.

 

[nabilk11]

isn't that red some kind of invisible track on the track?

thats rare to see

 

[TSwenson]

Quick and simple first, did you shut down Trainz incorrectly at all in the intervening times? I have had issues occasionally with "revert" or "use changes" when there have been issues shutting down Trainz correctly, both have sometimes given me problems. The latest was a power blip (thanks CMP, learn to keep the power on) and I went to the "use changes" getting a broken file and ended up having to revert to a much earlier file, loosing much of my work. Short version is that NONE of the junction levers showed up and I couldn't put new ones down as the program had them in place but didn't render the junction lever/arrows.

 

[OddRails]

My first thought -- which may not be useful -- is to check what layers the assets may be in. I'm frequently editing in the session layer when I meant to be in the route layer. I have not used those assets you have between the rails, so you know more about those than I do.

 

[martrain]

Thank you for your help.
The only solution for now has been to copy the baseboards from my additions on save 123 to the correct one, save 110. I hardly lost any of my changes, which I'll put back in order.

I'll continue from there.
However, I'll do a full preview of my baseboard after a few saves to make sure everything is in place!

Thanks to all you awesome Trainz fans!

 

[rwk]

How do you prevent corrupted routes due to Trainz no longer responding (hangs) or Windows Explorer hangs forcing a computer restart? Sometimes Trainz will run a DBR when it is loaded again but the route that was open when Trainz or Windows stopped responding makes you revert or go to the last version.