Can't install 8.5 on a fresh Windows XP install?

A 2 GB download can't possibly include all the files/code/data that came with Sonar 8.0. You need the core code to make the upgrade work.

I stand corrected.

+1 to rstollen's comment.  Bakers have said that the disks include the full files while the downloads do not.

You don't need to give them another $15.  Just get out your V8.0 disks.  You do have them,  don't you?

Any particular reason why?

You misunderstand.

The 8.5 update does not contain the full SONAR install.

SONAR 8 (preferably 8.3.1) must be installed on your system
for the update to work correctly.

The only other option is to buy the full 8.5 DVD set.
The full version of SONAR 8.5 is not available as a download.

If you think about it, it makes sense.
How could a 2 GB download contain the 17 GB plus of data
contained in the 4 SONAR 8 DVDs you need for a full install?

The previous version 8 is  not "legacy" software,
8.5 is still version 8 of SONAR ... plus some ......

HUH?

Surely the word "update"  gives you a clue?

It's an update!

That implies that something must already be installed
to be updated yeah?

That's what the installer is telling you.
It can't find the original install to perform the update on.

It uses the V8.0 install as the SOURCE MATERIAL for V8.5

The V8.5 download contains ALL the patches + extra content since 8.0 including everything for 8.5

You Must install your V8.0 disk set IN FULL.  Then run your V8.5 download. You end up with V8.0 and V8.5

DH123


It installs a seperate version -  It's NOT an update.   Stay out of my thread as you have nothing useful to contribute.

Yes it does but it needs the original install to build the complete 8.5 install.

And it's not your thread man!

Anyone can post to any thread here.
It's an open forum.

I'll accept your apology when you realize your mistake.

You guys trying to help the OP have my respect for being very patient.

The OP is dead wrong on this and will never get anything installed if he doesn't listen to you guys.

I would explain it too except you all have already done the explaining.  How many ways does a newbie need to hear something before it sinks in?

I'm glad I read this thread. I don't know why at the moment since I laughed my a** off. Oh yeah, It made me decide to order the specially priced elite package with the discs since I want to do a clean install myself. I still have Sonar 7 on the drive. Aren't computers fun?

hehe

Next morning.

HI EVERYONE!

Looks like DH123 ran away when he realized his mistake.

hehehe

I told my wife about this one ... usually hard to raise
her interest but this one got a laugh out of her so at
least something positive came out of it.

Actually, I think DH123 may've performed a small
service for all of us because, as far as I can tell
his is the most extreme example, so far, of
someone who is so set in their ways, so not able
to give up old notions of how software is delivered,
updates etc etc, that they can't accept the truth
when it's staring them in the face!

From my point of view there have been many
posts here suffering from this syndrome, albeit
in a much milder, less obnoxious way.

And even though none have been so rude, obnoxious
or set in their ways ... many could learn from him.

Let go of previous conceptions of how software is delivered
and what a "points release" is as opposed to a "full release".

Or whatever the terminology is.

Let go people!

Open your mind/eyes/heart to the new way.

Or at least the current way.

Cakewalk have dared to shift the goal posts
and I'm absolutely amazed at the conservative,
hysterical reactions, some people have displayed,
in their inability to comprehend and handle the shift!

Human nature is a weird thing.

Vary basic equation here.

2GB < 17 GB.

 

I think the OP is just messing with you guys.