Activity unpackaging error: "Expected more files"?
Started by brucek8 posts4 min read
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Is anyone familiar with what causes this message to appear and how it is overcome?The new Activity which I uploaded yesterday, for the San Diego & Arizona route, is throwing this message up and causing nervous irritations and gastric ulcers to my expectant public! (A solution would, I suppose, be just to zip all the appropriate files but that would be defeating the purpose of the packager!)Bruce.
RE: Activity unpackaging error: "Expected more files"??
Several people seem to have come across this recently and I haven't seen a cogent answer on the subject.Why not put it into a self installer - in any case some people (me included) like to see what everything is rather than just chuck it into the folders. I have my own way of dealing with packagers (provided they work in the first place ).Hope you get it sorted.Bill
RE: Activity unpackaging error: "Expected more files"??
Some routes for some unknown reason just don't like the packager. It only includes the act file and not the rest. What you can do in explorer is create a folder with the needed subfolder, put the files in them and then zip it up. BTW, don't forget the consists.Kevin Arceneaux It is time for Amtrak to become a fallen flag!
RE: Activity unpackaging error: "Expected more files"??
Phew! It's good to read that, Ken! I discovered the reason for the packager spitting the dummy: it won't accept file names outside the bounds of DOS conventions, i.e, no more than 8 characters in the prefix (followed by the three-character suffix, of course!)This makes using unique names very difficult but it's something which I shall bear in mind for future efforts.Bruce.
RE: Activity unpackaging error: "Expected more files"??
The reason that this error happens is that the route directory name is different then the track database name. In the case of the San Diego route the directory name is SDA20 I believe but the track database is SDA1. If you change the route directory to SDA1 then you should be able to package the activity correctly. You will also find this problem with the East Metro route and any route that is installed within route control. This only effects the packaging of the activity, from what I have seen the name of the route directory does not matter when you are installing the acivity as it will look for the name in the track database.We discovered this problem when trying to package activities for these routes at www.vnerr.com.Hope this helps.Brian Element mow@nverr.com
The reason that this error happens is that the route directory name is different then the track database name. In the case of the San Diego route the directory name is SDA20 I believe but the track database is SDA1. If you change the route directory to SDA1 then you should be able to package the activity correctly. You will also find this problem with the East Metro route and any route that is installed within route control. This only effects the packaging of the activity, from what I have seen the name of the route directory does not matter when you are installing the acivity as it will look for the name in the track database.We discovered this problem when trying to package activities for these routes at www.vnerr.com.Hope this helps.Brian Element North Eastern Railroad mow@nverr.com
