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Title: strange names, lots of errors when opening changed file
Post by: Dune on December 14, 2019, 03:17:47 AM
I'm working with Dorian on some file, and after changing some parameters, adding some SSS's, new add functions, etc, and 2 trees, sending the altered tgd back, he just can't open without a huge amount of errors. Could this happen between different versions of TG it's been saved in? I work on the latest alpha build 4.4.46, I guess Dorian is working on the latest public build (4.4.44).
Title: Re: strange names, lots of errors when opening changed file
Post by: Oshyan on December 14, 2019, 02:53:33 PM
I'm not sure off-hand, but I see that all of the erroring files seem to have two things in common: very long file names (possibly exceeding some total path length?), and spaces in file names. I'd try replacing spaces with underscores, at least in a test case, and see what happens.

- Oshyan
Title: Re: strange names, lots of errors when opening changed file
Post by: cyphyr on December 14, 2019, 06:01:20 PM
I have had long file names automatically created like this for a long time.
Mostly I don't worry about it.
Seems to happen when projects are gathered.
I find it more annoying that I am needlessly loading up multiple duplicates of the same file because Terragen has decided to re-name them on gathering.
Title: Re: strange names, lots of errors when opening changed file
Post by: Oshyan on December 14, 2019, 06:10:11 PM
Huh, if these are TG-created names then it would seem odd that spaces would be an issue. So maybe I'm on the wrong track. But I've honestly never seen this renaming behavior. 😯

- Oshyan
Title: Re: strange names, lots of errors when opening changed file
Post by: Dune on December 15, 2019, 02:26:32 AM
I've seen it before too, but can't remember when and how. BUT, the culprit has been found. The tgd was put inside the project folder, and it was of course supposed to be beside it. Little misunderstanding :P
Title: Re: strange names, lots of errors when opening changed file
Post by: Oshyan on December 15, 2019, 02:52:12 PM
Ahhh, glad you resolved it then :D

- Oshyan
Title: Re: strange names, lots of errors when opening changed file
Post by: Dune on December 16, 2019, 01:55:43 AM
Yes, it was too big and complicated a file to get lost forever.