How to rescue my session?

[Mick_Berg]

I've just had a major track spaghetti incident, something similar to what Vern describes in his "Spline Bug with Fixed Objects" post.
The problems appear in the route when I open it with "Edit Session", which I have been doing for years. In the route itself everything is fine.

What is the safest way to re-associate my session with the good version of the route?
The session was quite involved and I really don't want to have to re-create it.

Thanks,
Mick Berg.

 

[sniper297]

Select the good route in content manager, right click, copy to clipboard.
Change to notepad, paste into a text document.
Select the good session, edit in explorer, open the config.txt with notepad.
Find the map KUID, copy and paste the KUID number from the text document to overwrite it.
Find the KUID table, top KUID element is always the map KUID number, replace that too.
Save, exit, commit, session is now associated with the other route.

 

[JohnnyC1]

Check in the Trainz back-up folder for an earlier save.

John

 

[Mick_Berg]

Select the good route in content manager, right click, copy to clipboard.
Change to notepad, paste into a text document.
Select the good session, edit in explorer, open the config.txt with notepad.
Find the map KUID, copy and paste the KUID number from the text document to overwrite it.
Find the KUID table, top KUID element is always the map KUID number, replace that too.
Save, exit, commit, session is now associated with the other route.

Unfortunately the good session had the kuid of the good route in it, although the route appeared messed up in the session.
Over to Plan B, I guess.
Thanks,
Mick.

 

[Mick_Berg]

Check in the Trainz back-up folder for an earlier save.

John

OK I have found an earlier session that will be OK, but I hate to have to ask, how do I bring that session into Trainz from the backups folder?
Do I just create a new session and then overwrite the files with those from the backup session?

Thanks,
Mick.

 

[Bill69]

Hi Mick,

It depends how it has been saved. If you saved it a s a CDP file copy it to your desktop, open CMP go to main menu and import CDPs. If it is saved as a folder copy it to your desktop and use import content.


Cheers,
Bill69

 

[sniper297]

If you're using some type of fixed track junction objects it might be the route rather than the session. Quick way to find out, create a new simple session from scratch and see if that triggers it.

 

[JohnnyC1]

OK I have found an earlier session that will be OK, but I hate to have to ask, how do I bring that session into Trainz from the backups folder?
Do I just create a new session and then overwrite the files with those from the backup session?

Thanks,
Mick.

Drag the folder over to CMP and drop it there, it will ask if you want to over-write the original. What I would do is to save the current session to CDP and then delete it, then drag the back-up into CMP and it will install as a new asset.

John

 

[Mick_Berg]

Thanks for the suggestions, but when I repaced the session, the route just messed up again. I found it easier just to repair the route.

My apologies to Mike10 if this is not the case, but I think my problem may have been caused by the "MB Single Plate Girder" bridge. I deleted that item from the route, and everything was OK again.

I will admit though, that I accidentally put a piece of track attached to the bridge on the "Session" layer. Couuld it be that?

Mick Berg.