delete acts

[prr4ever]

Hi folks
Not certain if this belongs in the MSTS forum or if I can get some answers here. I'll move it or the admin can move it to MSTS if needed.

Two questions.

1. Is there a way to delete the saves in different activities that I have run over the years? I know I can delete them one by one in the activity so my question is there a file somewhere where I can delete the whole bunch in each activity at once?

2. Is there a way to delete old activities I do not want on the computer anymore? I have acts on there going back maybe 20 years or from the origin of MSTS. Do I have to remove each act from each route or do I need to delete each act, service, traffic and paths from each route one at a time?

Thanks,

Dave

[R. Steele]

Hi folks
Not certain if this belongs in the MSTS forum or if I can get some answers here. I'll move it or the admin can move it to MSTS if needed.

Two questions.

1. Is there a way to delete the saves in different activities that I have run over the years? I know I can delete them one by one in the activity so my question is there a file somewhere where I can delete the whole bunch in each activity at once?

For Open Rails only: delete contents of this folder >>> C:\Users\ "your name" \AppData\Roaming\Open Rails

2. Is there a way to delete old activities I do not want on the computer anymore? I have acts on there going back maybe 20 years or from the origin of MSTS. Do I have to remove each act from each route or do I need to delete each act, service, traffic and paths from each route one at a time?

Thanks,

Dave

No Idea for MSTS, common sense sezs deleting an activity file, the associated service and traffic files would be enough. I'd leave the paths and consist, you might be able to use those. Ged Saunders MSTS ActMan program can create a zip file for any activity that contains all the components...you could use this to store the activities and then delete all the files. RouteRiter may also perform this task.

[latimers]

For MSTS, look in the Train Simulator folder and there is a folder called "Saves". Inside are subfolders for each route with at least one save and the saves are inside them.

[geepster775]

Doesn't Mr. Saunders have a utility that produces a report that lists all the paths, traffic, services, etc used by an activity? So you know precisely what to prune and what to keep if it is shared by another activity?

[latimers]

Route_Riter will do this as well.

Delete the .act files from the Activities folders of the activities that you want to delete.
Run the "check all activities" routine.
Press the "Unused Services Consists" button at the bottom.
Highlight what you want to delete (Paths, etc.) and delete them.

[slipperman]

Hi geepster775,
Yes, mate
MSTS_ActMan will list all the files (except stock) used by any selected activity. That report doesn't show if any of the files are used by other activities.

At any time after selecting a route, if [Alt+L] is pressed, a list of Paths, Services, Traffic and Consist files used by all activities in the route is displayed. It immediately shows the number of activities a file is used by - further details can be obtained by clicking the file.

Cheers,
Ged

[prr4ever]

Thanks to all of you. I had looked in the MSTS saved folder but it was empty. I remember before ORTS it used to show the saves. Guess it does not anymore. I did not think of ActMan, which I should have so will work with that as I have time.

[slipperman]

Hi,
Correction/clarification
In my last message, "further details can be obtained by clicking the file."
should have read :
"further details can be obtained by clicking on the displayed file name."

Apologies for that

Cheers,
Ged

[latimers]

The advantage of the Route_Riter method (see above) is that it doesn't delete components that are used by other activities.