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Help - Timetables appearing in folder but not in loader 22/07/2016 at 19:57 #83742
gremlin604
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Hi Guys
Hoping someone can help, earlier on this evening my laptop crashed while testing a Llangollen timetable, also uploading to YouTube and saving a video so probably my fault, simply I saved this timetable and saved it, before forcing a restart on my system as it was the only thing I could do, upon attempting to restart the saved game it gave me an error message 'This archive is not a valid Zip archive' twice followed by 'file is not a valid saved simulation'. Thinking it was just the save that was corrupted I went to start the simulation again the affected timetable no longer appears in the available timetable list, although the file is still in the simulation folder, any advice would be massively appreciated
Thank you

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Help - Timetables appearing in folder but not in loader 22/07/2016 at 20:00 #83743
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Hi Guys
Hoping someone can help, earlier on this evening my laptop crashed while testing a Llangollen timetable, also uploading to YouTube and saving a video so probably my fault, simply I saved this timetable and saved it, before forcing a restart on my system as it was the only thing I could do, upon attempting to restart the saved game it gave me an error message 'This archive is not a valid Zip archive' twice followed by 'file is not a valid saved simulation'. Thinking it was just the save that was corrupted I went to start the simulation again the affected timetable no longer appears in the available timetable list, although the file is still in the simulation folder, any advice would be massively appreciated
Thank you
Upload the file to this thread and I'll have a look for you.

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Help - Timetables appearing in folder but not in loader 22/07/2016 at 20:02 #83744
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Thank you very much, is there a way to PM the file as it's still a work in progress??
Thank you for your quick reply

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Help - Timetables appearing in folder but not in loader 22/07/2016 at 20:10 #83745
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Not sure if you can PM it me, but I've PM'd you my email address, just send it as an attachment.
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Help - Timetables appearing in folder but not in loader 23/07/2016 at 05:39 #83748
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Jumping the gun a little here but if you have a more recent version of Windows with File History turned on you might be able to find a previous version of your timetable and/or saved game.

WinRar and 7-zip might have zip fixing utilities, I'm not sure. But if the file was not completely saved when the shutdown occurred then there simply may not be enough to fix.

Backup, backup, and then check the backup works! (Always an easy thing to say, I know)

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