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mirageman (6 posts)
Jul-10-01, 10:26 PM (EST) "Help! tried to fix coupler problem using notepad, know I can't use any trains!!" Please help! I have well over 150 cars and locomotives in my collection. I read a post about editing the .wag files to prevent uncoupling, did so using notepad, and now they won't work. Then I changed them back to original and they still won't work. What could I download that would allow me to edit these files other than notepad. ?
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Subject Author Message Date ID RE: Help! tried to fix coupler prob... ergobob Jul-10-01 1 RE: Help! tried to fix coupler prob... sniper297 Jul-10-01 2 RE: Help! tried to fix coupler prob... derekmorton Jul-10-01 3 RE: Help! tried to fix coupler prob... mirageman Jul-10-01 4 RE: Help! tried to fix coupler prob... mirageman Jul-10-01 5 RE: Help! tried to fix coupler prob... mirageman Jul-10-01 6 RE: Help! tried to fix coupler prob... dgauci Jul-11-01 7 RE: Help! tried to fix coupler prob... mirageman Jul-11-01 8 RE: Help! tried to fix coupler prob... derekmorton Jul-11-01 9 RE: Help! tried to fix coupler prob... mirageman Jul-12-01 10 RE: Help! tried to fix coupler prob... ergobob Jul-12-01 11

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ergobob (136 posts)
Jul-10-01, 10:50 PM (EST) 1. "RE: Help! tried to fix coupler problem using notepad, know I can't use any trains!!" Show us a copy of the fix you made. Just cut and paste the relevant section that you changed.bob Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
sniper297 (21 posts)
Jul-10-01, 11:08 PM (EST) 2. "RE: Help! tried to fix coupler problem using notepad, know I can't use any trains!!" You have to use wordpad so it saves it in the right format. If you don't want to reinstall (I assume you have custom cars) try opening a few with wordpad, then saving and make sure it has the .con extension (or .wag or .eng, depending on what it is) because notepad probably saved it as something like US2hopper.txt or US2hopper.con.txt, and the filename the program is looking for isn't there.
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derekmorton (41 posts)
Jul-10-01, 11:11 PM (EST) 3. "RE: Help! tried to fix coupler problem using notepad, know I can't use any trains!!" If you associate the extension .wag with notpad the first time you open it, it will save correctly.Derek tm4@leder.com.au Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
mirageman (6 posts)
Jul-10-01, 11:34 PM (EST) 4. "RE: Help! tried to fix coupler problem using notepad, know I can't use any trains!!" Thanks for the help. What I modified was the following line:original file:
B r e a k ( 1 . 1 e 7 N 1 . 1 e 7 N )
Then I modified the line to this:
B r e a k ( 5 . 1 e 7 N 5 . 1 e 7 N ) Then, I changed it back and it still didn't work. One thing that came to me was that I had word wrap on. then I just turned it off.I also noticed there are two black blocks behind each line in notepad. When I pasted it here they weren't there hmmm....It resaved as a .wag file.....I will try reassociating it and resaving it as a wordpad file. I have nothing to loose, except everything
I will get back to everyone as soon as I reassociate open and save all files to wordpad. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
mirageman (6 posts)
Jul-10-01, 11:37 PM (EST) 5. "RE: Help! tried to fix coupler problem using notepad, know I can't use any trains!!" Okay, reassociating didn't work, I opened it as a worpad file and all I got was characters and blocks any idea's?
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mirageman (6 posts)
Jul-10-01, 11:57 PM (EST) 6. "RE: Help! tried to fix coupler problem using notepad, know I can't use any trains!!" Okay went back through all my files, shut wordwrap off and resaved.
Didn't work. PHUCK!
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dgauci (22 posts)
Jul-11-01, 00:44 AM (EST) 7. "RE: Help! tried to fix coupler problem using notepad, know I can't use any trains!!" LAST EDITED ON Jul-11-01 AT 00:50 AM (EST)>If you associate the extension .wag
>with notpad the first time
>you open it, it will
>save correctly.
>
>Derek tm4@leder.com.au
DON'T ever associate .wag, .eng, .sd or .con files to open with Notepad, you meant to say WordPad. Notepad will corrupt the files because it does not support Unicode, which is the character set that the files use. You MUST use Wordpad or another Unicode supporting text editor to open the files. If you have opened and then saved them in Notepad, then they are most likely corrupted, perhaps permanently. Do you have backup copies? I think you'll now need them. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
mirageman (6 posts)
Jul-11-01, 09:34 PM (EST) 8. "RE: Help! tried to fix coupler problem using notepad, know I can't use any trains!!" Well here I go.....
uninstall!!!!
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derekmorton (41 posts)
Jul-11-01, 09:39 PM (EST) 9. "RE: Help! tried to fix coupler problem using notepad, know I can't use any trains!!" More information about notepad.NT4 and win2000 notpad works fine.I cannot test 9x as I don't have a copy at work.
I will test tonight at home.Derek tm4@leder.com.au Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
mirageman (6 posts)
Jul-12-01, 11:03 AM (EST) 10. "RE: Help! tried to fix coupler problem using notepad, know I can't use any trains!!" Discovered the Problem!The notepad program supplied with windows ME did corrupt those files! I re-associated .wag's and .eng's with wordpad, and re-opened a few files that I hadn't re-saved as notepad documents. Total difference. Then I tried to open an altered one. blocks and sims. So my opinion to everyone is....IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SPEND AN ENTIRE DAY DOWNLOADING ALL YOUR FILES, BACK THEM UP FOR ONE, SECOND, ONLY USE WORDPAD TO ALTER FILES!Have a nice day! Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
ergobob (136 posts)
Jul-12-01, 07:18 PM (EST) 11. "RE: Help! tried to fix coupler problem using notepad, know I can't use any trains!!" Glad you got it fixed. Wordpad it is.bob Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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