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2018/02/15 23:27:09 (permalink)

Easiest way to back up ALL my Cakewalk products?

I am in a crazy place in life and will have no time in the near future to play or record. What is the best way for me to back up all of my products for a future install on a whole new DAW? I know this has probably been answered a million times since the last time I logged in, so please forgive if I am beating a dead horse....thanks in advance fellas...sad to see this happen to such an amazing product!
 
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    highlandermak
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    Re: Easiest way to back up ALL my Cakewalk products? 2018/02/15 23:50:58 (permalink)
    Download to a cloud based drive like Google drive or drop box is one option. Another would be to backup to multiple usb drives as I wouldn't trust backing up to only 1 device. Or another idea purchase an external hard drive and use that. Many options. Good luck

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    Re: Easiest way to back up ALL my Cakewalk products? 2018/02/16 00:39:16 (permalink)
    Thanks...I have 2 externals and decided to just download them all on the ED's

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    Re: Easiest way to back up ALL my Cakewalk products? 2018/02/16 18:48:23 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby Salsamac 2018/02/16 21:30:20
    There's two things most of us have done to make things future proof as possible. 
     
    First is to use Command center and make all the little lights go green. 
    Then copy the CCC download folder to multiple back up locations. 
    The CCC download folder is found in C/Product Data/Cakewalk/ Command center 
     
    THEN I would also go directly to your MY Products Page and download EVERYTHING as well as make screen shots or copy paste all the serial numbers for each product. Copy these as well to multiple locations. 
    Some of the Plug ins and libraries etc in there can be used with other DAW's but you'll need those serial numbers to install them later.  
     
    You might also want to install as many copies of Sonar as you have available computers and make sure they are fully authorized.
    At this point we have no guarantee that we will be able to install Sonar to a new computer in the future. The servers could be shut down at any time even though we've been promised this won't happen. Once they are shut down they will be no way to authorize new installs of Sonar. You can have as many copies of Sonar as you have computer as long as you and only you use one at a time. 

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    Re: Easiest way to back up ALL my Cakewalk products? 2018/02/21 18:10:03 (permalink)
    Dumb question .. or not ... how would I know?
     
    Anyway, what is this command center everyone is talking about? "Making all the lights go green?" ... it's all greek to me.
     
    But maybe this only relates to the folks that signed up for the platinum version, or the lifetime of updates? Maybe the reason I have no idea is because I never matriculated out of X3 world?

    it appears i've fallen off the tune-wagon yet again ...

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    Re: Easiest way to back up ALL my Cakewalk products? 2018/02/21 18:15:31 (permalink)
    https://www.cakewalk.com/Command-Center
    Does not apply to X3 but could apply to other Cakewalk products such as Dimension Pro and Rapture. It was introduced after X3.
     
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    Re: Easiest way to back up ALL my Cakewalk products? 2018/02/21 20:10:25 (permalink)
    Ohhhh. Sort of like an installation wizard or something. Thanks for the learnin'

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    Re: Easiest way to back up ALL my Cakewalk products? 2018/02/21 20:50:21 (permalink)
    X3e is the last "safe" version of Sonar. You need not be at all worried about the future other than eventually X3 won't run on what ever the latest OS and system is somewhere a long way down the road. I will revert to X3e before I stop using Sonar all together. But it will suck losing all the latest features. 

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    Re: Easiest way to back up ALL my Cakewalk products? 2018/02/22 19:26:23 (permalink)
    Good to know. Yeah, I will probably stay on board this ship at least until I see shark fins beginning to circle. Thanks for the advice.
     

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    Re: Easiest way to back up ALL my Cakewalk products? 2018/02/25 11:29:57 (permalink)
    And then Sonar was saved. See the myriad of threads about the news.

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