Recovering an Autosave Route

[Chelsea4884]

So, I'm working away in TANE Surveyor on a route that has 7 complicated sessions associated with it, when a foolishly large "replace" edit causes TANE to vanish (crash). Not to worry - autosave to the rescue, right? There, in the Route menu, is the original route (Chicago SW) with its 7 sessions, and below it, Chicago SW - Autosave, with its one default associated session. I'm willing to bet all the money on my desk that if I open the Autosave and Save As Chicago SW, I will lose association with the seven sessions... am I right? How can I get them back? Would I edit something in the new, recovered route config file to point it to the seven sessions?

 

[JohnnyC1]

In T12 I would clone the autosave, then open each session and change the tag:
map-kuid <to your cloned map kuid>

John

 

[JCitron]

There is an alternative way and doesn't involve the confusing autosaves.

Close Surveyor.

Open up Content Manager.

Open up Windows Explorer, or whatever it's called.

Navigate to where T:ANE data is. If it's by default, it's located under c:\<username>\App Data\Local\N3V\TANE.

Once there, go to the Backups folder.

Located in the backups folder, are a bunch of date-named folders such as 07-09-2015. These are in DAY-Month-year format, and not month-day year.

You will see two kinds of folders there. Some will have gobbly- gook type names, while others will have Kuids. Chose one with the most recent date and time stamp.
Open the folder and view the config.txt. This should have the Kuid of your route in it and the name.

Copy this backup to your desktop if this is the one, otherwise keep hunting until you find one to work with and do so afterwards.

Once you've found the folder, drag the complete folder into TANE content manager.

The route will load, and you should (not may) get an a warning about a file already existing. This is actually good.

Now go to the open for editing filter.

Right-click on this and Submit to overwrite your corrupted route.

This process works the same in TS12. I just did this because TS12 decided to not respond and crash on me a few minutes ago. I was able to recover to where I was at my previous save.

I hope this helps. If you are unsure, or perhaps I was unclear, please post and we can walk you through the steps.

John (another John C)

 

[Chelsea4884]

Wow, that's excellent J Citron; thanks. But meanwhile my Medusa has put forth another two heads. I opened and edited the Chicago SW - Autosave, then performed a Save As... Chicago SW, thinkiing this would overwrite the original route, with the 7 sessions. I had a plan for recovering the sessions if need be. But lo! This created a SECOND ROUTE with the same name Chicago SW, with ZERO sessions!! Gadzooks! Now I think I will edit the configs of the sessions to point them to the new copy, the one with several hours of edits in it, and abandon the earlier copy... But how can I avoid this in future? Or can't I?

 

[JCitron]

Wow, that's excellent J Citron; thanks. But meanwhile my Medusa has put forth another two heads. I opened and edited the Chicago SW - Autosave, then performed a Save As... Chicago SW, thinkiing this would overwrite the original route, with the 7 sessions. I had a plan for recovering the sessions if need be. But lo! This created a SECOND ROUTE with the same name Chicago SW, with ZERO sessions!! Gadzooks! Now I think I will edit the configs of the sessions to point them to the new copy, the one with several hours of edits in it, and abandon the earlier copy... But how can I avoid this in future? Or can't I?

You're welcome.

Whew! That's a lot going on. There will be fewer crashes once the hotfix goes in. This will solve the CTDs as we've been calling them here.

Good luck going forward. The best bet is to have a backup your data. By default it's in the App Data/N3V/TANE/etc. I put min on E: under TANE_Data so it's easy to find. I just copy the whole folder to my external backup drive and overwrite my previous backup. This keeps everything up-to-date, at least to my most current backup.

John