Just when I thought I had gotten the hang of this, it looks like I haven't
I have a free route and session that I downloaded via content manager. I painstakingly found all missing assets so it was now complete.
I exported the route as one CDP and the session as another. So far so good.
As a test I then deleted the route (which deleted the session too) and then from the first Trainz menu did a 'File, Import content file" and imported both the route and the session.
It restored perfectly and all was good.
Because this worked I then went through every single route and session I own and painstakingly exported everything thinking this was actually a faster way to get everything up and running following a fresh install (rather than having to download everything.)
The theory was good I thought!
But having uninstalled and reinstalled everything from scratch and then imported all the CDP's, the free route had the orange icon showing that stuff was missing. I clicked on it and it showed over 800 items for download - so I'm back to square one
So can anyone help me understand what it is I'm missing about this procedure and why, despite exporting the route and session to a CDP, it now has 800 items missing?
I know I can take a backup of the entire folder as per a previous post but I was loathed to do that because Trainz seems to leave behind a lot of mess when you're constantly installing and uninstalling. When I did the uninstall there was still half a terabyte of files left behind so I don't want to be backing this up.
I'm really just looking for the most straightforward way to back everything up and restore it exactly as it was at the time of the backup. If the only option is to backup the entire folder structure then I guess I need to start from scratch, get everything as I want it and then do the backup?
Any advice is much appreciated