Cakewalk driving me mad !

Is anyone else in the same boat here ? ive spent 2 days trying to download X2 fire fox, internet explorer, google chrome, trying match check sums not matched. Then when ive finally had enough ive tried to email cakewalk technical support, fill out all the problems, click submit, and then there is problem and cant be sent. I love using sonar as my DAW and really want to use what i have paid for, but just cant get anywhere. If anyone from cakewalk on here sees this please, please can you help me, im getting so frustrated now. I would really appreciate some help or my money back till i can have a working download. Kind Regards, Ben

Hey GIM, thankyou for your reply, someone suggested Free download manager yesterday, and it just kept coming up with support unknown and wouldnt download anything, at least i cant get any more pissed off haha! so i will keep trying, any other suggestions ?

Hey Matt, Thankyou for your response I have downloaded this, and am not having much luck, ive never used this before, i have tried putting in every thing possible and i am getting an .aspx file which does nothing ? I would be extremely gratefull of any help with his FDM :-)

Cool cool. Should give you some happy signs like below.

I just re-did it then for you so it has a few things you don't have (i.e. the already on disk bit), but if it all looks green and happy like that, you should be fine! You can just drag in each and every .exe file so they are ALL in there, and then select all the stuff you don't want to download yet, and just click stop. You can resume those downloads later. For now, I'm sure you just want to put all your bandwidth into part1/part2/part3/part4, which is the main program.

Do they all look like this?





Or does only .part1 have the X2 logo? They should all have the X2 logo. If only part1 does, then your .exe is missing off the end of the other files. If they are all in the same folder just like above, it should work...

ben1982


Hey GIM, thankyou for your reply, someone suggested Free download manager yesterday, and it just kept coming up with support unknown and wouldnt download anything, at least i cant get any more pissed off haha! so i will keep trying, any other suggestions ?

That tells me something is wrong with your computer or your network. 

I used Chrome over my Time Warner cable connection and every file was perfect the first try. Not only that, I downloaded 3 files at a time and I was on a teleconference call the entire time they were downloading. 

I have win rar and tried extracting them in that and it says the part 1 file is corrupt. When cakewalk first released the download it was reported as corrupt, where was the new download they said had fixed it put ? because in my account the download is still dated 18th september, so im guessing i didnt get the updated one ? please someone from cakewalk help out !

Hi musicroom, im just trying everything ive just got no ideas left, loading them from the same isnt working, i just keep getting the error message 'please download and run previous packages'

Hi indravayu, do you keep getting the error message 'please download and run previous packages' ?

Hi Burnmore, ive tried that they all have x2 logo and .exe and when i double click part 1 it loads for a bit then i get the error message 'please download and run previous packages' i think the original file is corrupt so there is no way of getting passed this until cakewalk hopefully will help me out tomorrow

indravayu, ive emailed cakewalk so hopefully will get a response on monday. What a waste of a weekend, but i really hope to get it sorted tomorrow and hope you get yours sorted too. Thankyou to everyone who has tried to help me, it is much appreciated. kind regards Ben

Thats cool you got yours to install, i tried downloading again still wont work same error message, and sadly no response from cakewalk today either, i have my fingers crossed i hear from them tomorrow

Ben- personally I strongly recommend that you spend the $30 and get the DVD's coming as soon as they are available. I know you may think it's good money after bad - but it's a small investment to get X2 up and running.
Meanwhile, run X1 and take a deep breath and wait for the dust to settle - 
I know it's frustrating.
If it's any consolation - X2 is extremely solid here. A great release. I have the world's slowest "broadband" connection (LOL) and downloading the files was an experience, but I knew what i was in for, and just decided to be patient - it took me a couple of days but what the heck....
X2'll be ready to go when you are ready to give it another try - 

Have you contacted tech support? They might be able to help you by setting up a remote to your computer and helping you install it. If the files are indeed downloaded properly there is not a whole lot that can go wrong. There has to be something messed up with the file extensions or permissions on your system. Tech will be able to troubleshoot that with you.
Its fruitless trying to do this over a web forum.