If, like me, you have ever deleted a partially completed route out of boredom, anger and/or frustration along with any back up cdp files then a month or two later wished you hadn't, then fear not. It appears that Trainz, certainly TRS2006 but presumably the other versions too, creates silent back-ups deep within the User folder.
I discovered this entirely by accident when doing a search on the name of an old route in which I wanted to check how I mixed some textures. No luck finding the cdp's which I must have deleted but it did provide a string of sequentially dated folders (all with nice gobbldeygook p4ph55dfg type names) several sub folders deep in the User folder. These contained all the gnd etc. files necessary to import the content. After running the folder through cmp and collecting missing assets from the DLS, behold! A route previously consigned to Oblivion back up and ready to be worked on. There's a couple of other projects I started and deleted such as one based on BC Rail which now have the potential to be resurrected. Dilemna now is do I work on the new route I started or go back to these older projects? One way or another, enough to keep me occupied for a good few months.
Who knows, maybe the TS2009 route I started but mysteriously reverted itself back to the raw state is in there somewhere.
The only caveat to this is how many of these back-up folders are created for each route? If it's every time you work on it, then the hard drive could get filled quite quickly. Maybe one of the Auran techs could enlighten us?
I discovered this entirely by accident when doing a search on the name of an old route in which I wanted to check how I mixed some textures. No luck finding the cdp's which I must have deleted but it did provide a string of sequentially dated folders (all with nice gobbldeygook p4ph55dfg type names) several sub folders deep in the User folder. These contained all the gnd etc. files necessary to import the content. After running the folder through cmp and collecting missing assets from the DLS, behold! A route previously consigned to Oblivion back up and ready to be worked on. There's a couple of other projects I started and deleted such as one based on BC Rail which now have the potential to be resurrected. Dilemna now is do I work on the new route I started or go back to these older projects? One way or another, enough to keep me occupied for a good few months.
Who knows, maybe the TS2009 route I started but mysteriously reverted itself back to the raw state is in there somewhere.
The only caveat to this is how many of these back-up folders are created for each route? If it's every time you work on it, then the hard drive could get filled quite quickly. Maybe one of the Auran techs could enlighten us?