[Jack@Elvas]

I've been running the Unstable branch of OpenRails.
Today I noticed there was an update, so I clicked the button, I saw the progress bar move from one side of the screen to the other.
When the progress bar was finished, I got a fatal exception saying that OpenRails was still running.

No problem, I thought, I'll just exit and rerun Openrails and try the update again.

Unfortunately Openrails.exe is now missing from my openrails folder.

I assume the updater downloaded the update, staged it somewhere and was about to swap files - does anyone know what files I should copy and from where?
I see a folder called "UpdateStage" and another called "UpdateDirty"

And of course I can always just reinstall 1.5.1 and change to the Unstable branch, but I figured this might be a good opportunity to see how things work under the hood.

Thanks!

- Jack

[pschlik]

If worst comes to worst, I'd recommend downloading a compiled version of unstable directly from James Ross' website. Going that route removes any unfair play caused by the updater, which is why I always use that. Unfortunately, the fact that I don't use and don't trust the updater means I have no idea if there's a cleaner solution to this issue, sorry.

[eric from trainsim]

Yeah, that happens. When it does, I change back to the testing version and re-download, and wait a day for the unstable to get worked out.

Downloading from James's site is another option, but it's usually not that pressing for me to be in the unstable.

[Jovet]

The nice thing about downloading and installing them manually (via un-zipping) is you can overwrite an existing installation or create a new one simply by un-zipping to a new folder.

[R H Steele]

Jovet, on 12 February 2024 - 12:17 PM, said:

The nice thing about downloading and installing them manually (via un-zipping) is you can overwrite an existing installation or create a new one simply by un-zipping to a new folder.

Yup, I've been doing it that way since the first time I downloaded and installed OR. Got different installations for various branches of the code.

[Weter]

Note, updater burns-out everything within "program" folder, where ORTS is.
So I've lost all my translation work, being new to ORTS.

[Jack@Elvas]

I 'resolved' it by re-installing openrails from the official 1.5.1 installer.

Wasn't a big issue for me - content is in different folders and OR seemed aware of the content folders I had after installation.

[slipperman]

Hi,
It dousn't matter haow many separate Open Rails versions you have, they all use the same Contents List from the Registry.

Cheers,
Ged

[R H Steele]

slipperman, on 13 February 2024 - 03:02 AM, said:

Hi,
It dousn't matter haow many separate Open Rails versions you have, they all use the same Contents List from the Registry.

Cheers,
Ged

https://www.elvastower.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/hi.gif Hi Ged ... That's accurate --- with an exception --- if the user has setup an Open Rails ini file.

I have a file for each "branch" of OR I'm using. The Content List*** & other settings are in the ini file and can be different for each version.

It's Jacks definition of "content folders" I am wondering about....does it refer to the actual Content folder within each OR installation or the Content List that points to the actual routes/profiles of OR. Content folder has the png, fx and other files OR uses.

*** referring to open rails profiles found in Options/Content Tab

[slipperman]

Hi Gerry,
Thanks, my mistake! :sign_sorry:

Cheers,
Ged