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#1 User is offline   Fleegle411 

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Posted 20 January 2017 - 04:28 PM

The past three times I have attempted to update OR, the updater.exe program has had some sort of issue. The first one it displayed the error but the sim continued to function. The second 2 resulted in an almost empty OR directory. Screencaps of the error messages are below.

This one was the first, the sim worked fine afterwards:
Attached Image: ORUpdteError.jpg

After seeing these two the sim had essentially deleted itself:
Attached Image: UpdateErrorFatal.jpg

Attached Image: ORUpdateErrorFatal2.jpg

Edit: I tried using the updater after deleting all the files in the OR Temp Update folder on my C drive and also what was left in the OR Experimental folder, same issue.

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Posted 20 January 2017 - 05:42 PM

View PostFleegle411, on 20 January 2017 - 04:28 PM, said:

The past three times I have attempted to update OR, the updater.exe program has had some sort of issue. The first one it displayed the error but the sim continued to function. The second 2 resulted in an almost empty OR directory. Screencaps of the error messages are below.

Although the sim may have been working, I can see from the screenshots that bits were missing: in this case, the PDB files which allow error messages to include source file names.

As to the problem itself, anti-virus interfering would be my first guess, but it might also be that you or something has created an empty directory inside a normal subdirectory in the Open Rails install, which I believe could throw things off (and somewhat amusing given the message is "The directory is not empty." - but it would be referring to the normal subdirectory if this is the case).

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Posted 21 January 2017 - 06:25 AM

Same issue as I reported last week. Same issue this week, but none of last weeks fixes are working. Guess I'll just have to give up ORS for a while as I can't get the latest version working. Bummer...

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Posted 21 January 2017 - 06:57 AM

When these incidents happen I usually have to re-download the testing version from here: http://openrails.org/download/program/

I also have multiple OR programs on my machine, the experimental in one installation, and 1.1.1 in another mostly for multiplayer purposes.

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Posted 21 January 2017 - 07:54 AM

View PostSetiRich, on 21 January 2017 - 06:25 AM, said:

Guess I'll just have to give up ORS for a while as I can't get the latest version working. Bummer...

Manually installing the latest Open Rails builds is so simple that relying on the updater is hardly necessary.

  • Go to http://james-ross.co...jects/or/builds and download the build you want to your computer. The most-current builds are nearest to the top.
  • Open the downloaded .zip file with your favorite Zip archive utility like 7-Zip or WinZip or even use the built-in-Windows handler.
  • Make sure Open Rails isn't running, then extract the files in the Zip file to overwrite your current Open Rails installation files, wherever you put them on your computer.
  • Profit.


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Posted 22 January 2017 - 01:10 PM

Okay, I've finally figured out what the problem is and will be patching it soon. It seems to be trying to delete the "Documentation" directory before it's deleted the subdirectory "SampleFiles", so I guess this problem started in the Testing version only when we added that (X3710) and doesn't affect Unstable.

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Posted 22 January 2017 - 02:14 PM

All fixed in X3766 and 1.2.3766, hopefully.

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Posted 23 January 2017 - 08:37 AM

Thanks JR,

That's the best fix of the year, so far.

Rich.




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Posted 28 January 2017 - 05:31 PM

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I've come across a new one. Same circumstances, but it shows me this error.

Attached Image: anewerror.jpg

This is coming off a fresh install from the 1.2 installer, going up to 3770 and the folder this installation is in is excluded by my AV.

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Posted 29 January 2017 - 02:23 AM

I just got the exact same error going from 1.2.3761 to 1.2.3766 on my PC but updating the testing version from X3767 to X3770 went without a hitch

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