All routes and trains lost after update?

[derekmorton]

I have asked the dev team to discuss the problem, we will see if they consider that a change of some sort is appropriate.

[geepster775]

A user trying to 'dress up' his OR installation look exactly like his MSTS installation caused a problem -- for himself.

Newsflash: OR is not MSTS. And the sooner the general public comes to grips with that, the fewer 'cross-dressing' blunders will occur.

That said, not backing up before any major software upgrade is, indeed, asking for disaster, learning a bitter lesson the hard way. Backups are our friends. Backup. Backup the backup and put that one someplace else 'cause it will be needed, sooner or later.

If it becomes 'common sense' to nag the responsible people to save the irresponsibles, then maybe we can add a nag message that says "disk drives will eventually fail so get your multiple backups done", too.

I've seen that 'sensible warning' deployed by software devs elsewhere, like, never number of times before.

[derekmorton]

The OR team have had a discussion and the following is the outcome:-

Agreed; we cannot check for content existing in the updater (since it does not know what files are meant to be there) but we can provide a check that the content path being added is not the same as or inside the application folder when adding it.

This will stop any personal content getting deleted.

[rt35ge]

Don't now why people can't/won't backup their files...... And not just you train simulator files!! Do frequent backups of important stuff in your mind. If you got large external drives, backup the C drive and an entire external or two. My Dad taught me at a young age. BACKUP! BACKUP! BACKUP! Doing this will someday save your $ss.