How to create an independent copy of a route?

Former Member over 15 years ago

I have created multiple routes, carefully sorted by location. I now wish to use some of these in planning a trip. In some cases, I’ll have to make some modifications, such as reversing a route or moving a portion of the route.

The problem I am encountering is, how do I modify these routes without altering the original, which I need to maintain as-is?

I have tried “duplicating” a route. To me, duplication means creating a copy that is independent of the original. When I alter a duplicated copy, the original is altered. The BaseCamp duplicates appear to be an alias, rather than a duplicate.

I also tried copying a route and pasting a copy into a list. Although both the copy and paste commands are available, nothing is pasted when I copy and paste a route.

How can I create a copy of an existing route that can be edited without affecting the original?

0 PSEABOLT over 15 years ago

When I duplicate a route, BC adds a number extension to the file name. The Duplicated route with the 1 extension can be changed without changing the original. All Routes, Tracks, & waypoints names must be unique otherwise changing you could not use list for filtering. Are you sure you are not changing the original route instead of the duplicated route with a different name or running an earlier version of BC? I am running BaseCamp 3.0.2.

0 Former Member over 15 years ago

I am using 3.0.2 as well but when I duplicate a route and then make changes to the new duplicated route, both it and the original show the change.

As an example:
1. Create a simple route called "test"
2. Duplicate the "test route. This will generate a new route called "test1"
3. Click and drag a portion of the "test1" route to change it from its original.
4. Re-open the original "test" route and examine it. It shows the change made to in "test1" even though "test" itself was not altered.

0 PSEABOLT over 15 years ago

I am using 3.0.2 as well but when I duplicate a route and then make changes to the new duplicated route, both it and the original show the change.

As an example:
1. Create a simple route called "test"
2. Duplicate the "test route. This will generate a new route called "test1"
3. Click and drag a portion of the "test1" route to change it from its original.
4. Re-open the original "test" route and examine it. It shows the change made to in "test1" even though "test" itself was not altered.

The test route I just did works as expected. The duplicated route is "test 1". Not sure what you mean by re-open original "test". If I double click the test route, it shows only two waypoints. If I double click test 1, it shows the via I created by dragging. If I click the route where the path is the same, RB wants me to choose test or test 1. Choosing test 1 shows the changed route in double width with arrows. Choosing test shows the original route. I can delete from folder either route leaving the other as expected. The directions of the test route are the original route only. I think this was a bug in one of the earlier versions but can't be sure.