Activity Analysis - a problem.

earwigo · Post by **earwigo** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:23 pm

When I use Activity Analysis, I find that some of the locos and wagons which I have in the Trainset folder (and corresponding consists in the Consists folder), do not appear. This is meaning that I have to do lots of 'replacements' for stock which does exist.
Can anyone offer any explanation of this please?
Many thanks,
Stuart.

ashgray · Post by **ashgray** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:35 pm

Hi

Could it simply be that the missing stock items are stored in Trainstore, rendering them invisible to AA?

Cheers
Ashley

earwigo · Post by **earwigo** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:42 pm

Hello Ashley,
No - I've 'unstored everything' before using Activity Analysis. This is what I find really puzzling!
Many thanks for your response anyway. Do you have any other ideas?
Best wishes, Stuart.

ashgray · Post by **ashgray** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 3:04 pm

Only the obvious ones so far Stuart...

1) have you registrered AA? If not, its functions are fairly limited (first three routes only I think)

2) have you tried removing and re-installing it? Do you get any specific error messages?

Cheers
Ashley

earwigo · Post by **earwigo** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 4:01 pm

Hello,
YES and YES. There are no error messages when I do that. I will try re-installing again though, and see what happens!
Thanks for your time again,
Stuart.

earwigo · Post by **earwigo** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 4:40 pm

Ashley,
I had sent an email to Ernst re. the problem with A.A., and he asked me to send a copy of the .wag and .eng files of a wagon and locomotive that A.A. was not picking up.
When I looked at a couple of stock files which A.A. is missing, they didn't have a .wag (wagon) or .eng (locomotive) file at all.
Is it necessary to have these files before A.A. will 'see' them? Incidentally, the items are all downloaded from UKTrainsim and installed as per instructions in the Read-Me.
Maybe this is important in solving the problem!
Stuart.

Post by **NeutronIC** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:24 pm

Correct, the ENG and WAG files are specifically what AA is looking for and if they're not there, then the loco is invisible as far as AA is concerned.

This is another symptom of trainstore though as that's what it does - which stock has missing files? Look in the storage folder and see if it's in there?

Matt.

ronald parkin · Post by **ronald parkin** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:33 pm

Hi , Matts just beat me to it, anyway go into your C;\ drive and there should be a Trainstore folder and it should be empty, that's where Trainstore places all the .ENG and.WAG files.

Regards

RonP

ashgray · Post by **ashgray** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:44 pm

Hi again Stuart

If the missing eng and wag files really are missing, you'll just need to download those items from the library again (or re0install if they're commercial stuff). But if they appear in the Train Store folder, and as you say you'd already unstored evrything first, I think it's safe to say the problem is with Trainstore. If so I'd suggest removing it (from within the program itself, not the windows "add & remove programs" applet) and re-install it.

Cheers
Ashley

ianmacmillan · Post by **ianmacmillan** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:56 pm

Have you used system restore lately?

This can seriously mess up Trainstore by renaming files.

Do a windows search for one of the file names and see if they turn up in another folder.

earwigo · Post by **earwigo** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 9:29 am

Yes, I had to use System Restore after big problems with my machine. When I look at the Trainset folders, I find there are many of them which are missing the .wag or .eng files, so this must be the cause of the problems referred to above.
I am now setting about re-downloading the relevant files.
Many thanks to everyone who has helped me with this problem.
Stuart.

phill70 · Post by **phill70** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 10:07 am

Stuart
You should not need to download them again, re-read Ian's post above, the eng and wag files will still be around somewhere, you just need to search for them.

Glyn

earwigo · Post by **earwigo** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 4:00 pm

Thanks Glyn, I'll do that!
Stuart.

thenudehamster · Post by **thenudehamster** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 4:17 pm

Tony Formoso does, I believe, have a utility which will 'recover' apparently missing files 'lost' by a System Restore...