Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back

[ledzeppelinfan1]

So after piddling around all day with Content Manager, I was able to download some pretty cool new stuff. So, getting all motivated by that, I decide its time to start up a new session.

Now here's what I do: I use the Marias Pass route and load the yards and sidings with trains, which takes somewhere around 2 hours. No big deal. I wish it didn't only allow me a certain amount of saves, whatever, its not a deal breaker. Plus it forces me to redress the route with new trains which always freshens the experience to the eyes.

So I select the BASE session which gives the user a blank route with which to work. I load the route with trains. I add enough drivers. Then, by mistake, when saving--I forgot saved both a new route and session!!! So, I hit SAVE AS again and selected to just save it as a NEW SESSION ONLY and renamed it to set it apart. Well when I hit EXIT SURVEYOR just a short moment later, hit prompts me that all changes would be lost if I didn't save. So to be safe, I thought, might as well hit SAVE again.

I exit surveyor and my Session save is nowhere to be found. The accidental save of a NEW ROUTE AND SESSION is there. So I open it and the route is blank, no trains!!!

So aggravated. This game is buggy as all get out. :/

EDIT:

So I did a google search on the topic and a thread from here popped up about a similar issue. It said to run the program as administrator which I went ahead and made the change. I'm done with this for the night, but hopefully this doesn't happen again. In conjunction, I believe I may have confused this irritable and clumsy program when I mistakenly saved it as a NEW ROUTE AND SESSION then resaved it as JUST A SESSION. I dunno. We'll see.

Any advice?

 

[ledzeppelinfan1]

OK...so I went back and did a test. And it seemed to work fine when you don't make a mistake like I did. Man, talk about learning the hard way. lol

 

[blueodessey]

3 steps back and maybe 1 fwd today......GRRRRRRR

Evening my Friend, and I don't want a "ledzeppelinfan1" having an unproductive party by himself, :hehe: I'm here to tell you I wasted the whole day fixing messed up track, learning how to Product Queue's with mill factories and forgetting to hit the checkmark on Sub menu's because of brain overload, LOL's I also during my intelligent moves, learned certain Cars won't carry certain Products,(loads) why the son Heck, I don't know,

But at the end of the day, I actually got some Lumber and Wire Coil to load on my flatcars. Tomorrow, well, it's MOTHERS DAY, and if I know what's good for me, I'd better not mess that up, or the Wife will string and quarter me before Dark.

It's all good, learning is great, :'( Mother Experience is what makes it tough, when you don't have a clue....

 

[JCitron]

We're always learning something new when we use this program. This is why it's great for all including us old farts because it keeps our brain cells active as we fathom out various bits and pieces to make them work together.

John