Hi Shane.
I wonder if you have any thoughts on the following problem:
Earlier this week I finally decided to install TS12 SP1 when I discovered that boat's new Sen City route is only available on SP1. Being cautious and not wishing to spoil my current installation, I installed a fresh TS12 and updated it to 49922, before starting the 49922 to 61388 patch.
Bearing in mind the size of the files involved, I was expecting this to take a while. To begin with things proceeded quite speedily but after an hour, when it started to update the .ja files, things slowed down. It took from 2200 on Monday till 1100 on Wednesday (37 hours) to complete TS12a.ja. At this point I put my computer to 'sleep' to let it and the room cool down! Since then it has run for a further 12 hours (it's now 2000 BST on Friday) and it's quarter of the way through TS12b.ja. Two files (srcFile and difFile) seem to be 'feeding' the .ja files very slowly - sometimes as little as 1 or 2KB at a time, but occasionally up to 3 or 4MB.
Most of the time, I have no other programs running, except those in the background, and 49922_to_61388.exe and jpatchl-w32.exe are using hardly any resources. Nonetheless, the system is running slow; e.g. if I open an Excel spreadsheet it takes up to five minutes before I can edit it. My system is running Windows 7 Professional SP1, with an AMD Phenom II 965 Processor @ 3.40 GHz, and 8GB of RAM; the partition I am installing to has 43GB free space. All virus, malware and spyware checkers are off, as is the firewall and I'm not connected to the internet (I'm doing this post on a netbook).
I'd be grateful if you could suggest any way of speeding up this process as at this rate it could easily take another week. If I need to stop the patch and reinstall, I am happy to do that if the patch can then be completed in a reasonable timeby doing things differently.
Thank you, in anticipation of any thoughts or guidance you may have.
Tom