montycrafter
New member
I have been working on a very large install for months now. I lost all my work except the landscaping and painting. All track and objects were gone. After contacting tech support I received a quick response that told me they don't recommend doing the work in a session. Where they recommend this is still lost on me but I began the long process of reinstalling my work in Routes.
I am now experiencing lost work again. I first relaid double track over the entire 64 mile route as well as some branch lines. I've reinstalled a portion of the thousands of trees that were lost in the crash. I began reinstalling a small yard today. I went into edit session to add my trains and commands but when I went to quickdrive to test it I found that the track had disappeared.
After recovering from my own meltdown with the prospect of more lost work in TANE, I was able to figure out that the track was invisible though some spline points could be seen. The track was still there holding invisible trains. I was successful at deleting the invisible trains which allowed me to delete the invisible track. I next attempted a smaller install but the same thing happened.
I then tried to install just the track with no trains in a completely different section of the layout and found the track disappeared again.
I have another ticket in at the help desk but I wanted to share this experience with the group in hopes of finding others that may be having the same problems. I love the TANE product and I don't want to go back to the previous versions of Trainz (or Train Simulator) because of these issues. But the lack of stability (as well as the barren field of user created content) make large builds in TANE too risky to continue. I have lost countless hours of work and I'm afraid of revisiting this frustration again.
I continually save my work, typically when I get the 'blue wheel of death' that regularly appears after a short time. I think the wheel may be tied into the 'Auto-save' feature but will only go away when I pull down a menu so I take the opportunity to manually save my work when it appears. Even after saving, my work has disappeared.
Any thoughts or help understanding what I can do to prevent losing so much work is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Monty
I am now experiencing lost work again. I first relaid double track over the entire 64 mile route as well as some branch lines. I've reinstalled a portion of the thousands of trees that were lost in the crash. I began reinstalling a small yard today. I went into edit session to add my trains and commands but when I went to quickdrive to test it I found that the track had disappeared.
After recovering from my own meltdown with the prospect of more lost work in TANE, I was able to figure out that the track was invisible though some spline points could be seen. The track was still there holding invisible trains. I was successful at deleting the invisible trains which allowed me to delete the invisible track. I next attempted a smaller install but the same thing happened.
I then tried to install just the track with no trains in a completely different section of the layout and found the track disappeared again.
I have another ticket in at the help desk but I wanted to share this experience with the group in hopes of finding others that may be having the same problems. I love the TANE product and I don't want to go back to the previous versions of Trainz (or Train Simulator) because of these issues. But the lack of stability (as well as the barren field of user created content) make large builds in TANE too risky to continue. I have lost countless hours of work and I'm afraid of revisiting this frustration again.
I continually save my work, typically when I get the 'blue wheel of death' that regularly appears after a short time. I think the wheel may be tied into the 'Auto-save' feature but will only go away when I pull down a menu so I take the opportunity to manually save my work when it appears. Even after saving, my work has disappeared.
Any thoughts or help understanding what I can do to prevent losing so much work is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Monty