Unable to open CPD file

[Darksteel350]

i accidently deleted my island of sodor route, and i tried to reinstall it, but now its saying "Unable to open CPD file for reading", i have never seen this happen before does anyone know how to fix it?

 

[JAGG]

Corrupted damaged file or incorrect filename extension usually generates such message.

 

[Darksteel350]

Corrupted damaged file or incorrect filename extension usually generates such message.

That's odd, it's the same file as the first time I installed it, I don't know why it would be corrupted

 

[JAGG]

Well, sometimes strange things happen between the sky and the ground.

 

[JCitron]

Try redownloading the file again. There are many reasons why you can't open the file.

1) Low hard drive space.
CDP files need to be decompressed and this means more than twice the amount of space needed by the OS to copy the contents from the CDP file and decompress it from the archive and put it into Trainz.

2) A bad hard drive, or one that's failing.

3) The file is corrupted.
It happens. Cosmic rays, a power sag or surge without a UPS, system glitches, something happened the last time you accessed the file, Aliens could have visited your PC, aka Little Green Men. They usually do this to ruin things you like the most unless they're off making Mondays pure hell for IT support staff as they wreak havoc on corporate systems over weekends.

 

[pcas1986]

You could try CDP Explorer - https://github.com/SilverGreen93/CDPExplorer/releases (link previously supplied by John).

That may give a clue as to the problem.