JonMyrlennBailey
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Anybody here who has built layouts long enough knows there is sometimes a good reason to have two instances of Surveyor open at the same time.
This is to have a newer increment of a damaged route open that needs repair by hand (replace content, spline points, etc.) while having a good older version also open to make visual comparisons and measurements with the ruler. It is like assembling a jigsaw puzzle by looking closely at the picture on the box.
The trouble is, one or both instances are prone to crash: either shut down involuntarily or become hoplessly Not Responding where it has to be forced to to be closed.
Sometimes edit work is lost because of this. One instance often hangs up during an Autosave or a manual save attempt in my case. When it is opened back up following forced shutdown, everything was lost since it was last opened up along side another instance.
Is there any way to keep two instances of Surveyor open reliably and save work in the process?
It almost seems like one needs two separate PC's running side by side to have two separate instances of Surveyor open to make repairs by comparing the two open instances.
This is to have a newer increment of a damaged route open that needs repair by hand (replace content, spline points, etc.) while having a good older version also open to make visual comparisons and measurements with the ruler. It is like assembling a jigsaw puzzle by looking closely at the picture on the box.
The trouble is, one or both instances are prone to crash: either shut down involuntarily or become hoplessly Not Responding where it has to be forced to to be closed.
Sometimes edit work is lost because of this. One instance often hangs up during an Autosave or a manual save attempt in my case. When it is opened back up following forced shutdown, everything was lost since it was last opened up along side another instance.
Is there any way to keep two instances of Surveyor open reliably and save work in the process?
It almost seems like one needs two separate PC's running side by side to have two separate instances of Surveyor open to make repairs by comparing the two open instances.
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