NAVS FreeWare TanksCars( Modern OR MSTS Default RePlaceMent ) How-To

[rdayt]

Just an fyi.
"Desktop" is a Windows system protected folder.

Randy

[eric]

Yep, that is really not a safe place to install ORTS and may be causing pathing issues at run time.

The suggested practice for decades is to build folders outside the system protected folders.

I have used C:\MSTS\ and E:\MSTS for over ten years... it's been the suggested method for the past 20 years because of how Window protects the user from themselves. Starting with win 7, drives such as desktop and documents are also aliases, and the physical/logical storage associated with the protected directories isn't necessarily all in the same location. That can confuse programs very easily who are looking for the same physical/logical path.

Another common issue is that if you are installing in a Windows system protected folder, you need to set the folder and subfolder permissions up in a way that will allow other programs to access the data. What's likely happening in your installation is that one of the subfolders doesn't have the right permissions. You can see it, but the programs can't. When you install things in their own directory as suggested above, that is no longer an issue.

My suggestion is that you open up the file explorer, create a new folder at your C directory like I showed above. You can then copy and paste the entire contents of the folder on your desktop into that new folder, and try to run the program from there.

Don't use cut and paste just in case there's a problem.

[marklester01]

Edited Because: Problem Solved!

[marklester01]

Problem Solved! I'd went back & re-read where "You should have" Wait, but I have? And, It's ready from the thing( read-Me ). Well, out In The Words of Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends,"I've Caused Myself Confusion & Delay",LOL! So now ALL The GATX Tanks show up in TSRE & I know The Folders are Installed Correctly. I just hope I won't make that huge "Fluke" & make that same mistake on The Gons. But one Question still remains, I know how to add the name line, but where do I add it to these types of .Wags( they're quite different, won't do it for the US2Chemicar don't think )? Thanks for eveyone's help.