Saving Surveyor Plans

[AandJEurorail]

I'm running TS2006 and until lately, everything was going great. Now, due to some untimely sytem crashes, I can't save anything in Surveyor. Everytime I go to save a design, I get an error promt "Trainz could not overwrite read only route files, try saving under another name". These are routes that I previously have created named and designed. Even if I start with a fresh canvas and try saving even the simplest route, I get the same error. Has anyone had this problem before, and is there a simple fix. I would try re-installing the program, but I recently moved and mispalced/or lost the original disk. Any help would be appreciated

 

[durhamlass]

I've seen this intermittently in TC3. When it happens, I simply "Save As" a new route name, and rename the resulting route in CMP.

It does potentially mess the link between sessions and their routes up, though.

 

[gfisher]

I get an error promt "Trainz could not overwrite read only route files, try saving under another name".

This problem crops up all the time for people doing large routes, and I read in here at some point that it had to do with the amount of addressable memory trainz could access. I noticed that when I moved my Sherman Hill route from my old computer, where I could not use the "save" function, to my new one with more RAM available that I could now use the "save" function once again, as opposed to the "save as" function. If you are now having problems with even the smallest routes, then you may have a memory problem in the computer, or you may not have allocated enough memory to trainz in the configuration page.

 

[bl4882]

Let me butt in to thank you, gfisher. By coincidence that exact problem happened today with a large route I am working on. I figured RAM was the issue, so I guess I had better add some.

Thanks again.

Bernie

 

[R701Rusty]

When this problem surfaced here on my computer I was able to get around it by clicking on the "Save As" button and save without changing the name. It is a good idea, however to have at least one copy of any route you are working on saved under a different name so that you have a back-up.
Hope this helps.

Cheers
Russell.