sonar le came with asus xonar D2X card upgraded versions from 6 thru 8.5le questions

have upgraded each version and once one was running fine i would delete previous version.... since doing this i realized that my library has become smaller.
 
i clean install twice yearly and am running a puget systems i7-940  on a super stable vista ultimate 64 bit setup which was built for my nikon D700 to work with my raw files. the sound work was secondary as i play around with loops and samples as i enjoy it.
 
so any help getting library rite would be appreciated .
 
the bundle that comes with asus Xonar D2X is ableton le, cakewalk bundle with dimension le,sonar le and project 5.
 
i recieved an email a couple months back offering sonar 8.5 le for $9.99 from the online store which i did.
i always delete previous version once i see new version works fine. it seems going to latest version it did away with asus xonar  branding to where it would open from shortcut on asus audio center which it no longer does...i can live with that but it seems i lost a ton of loops and samplesgoing to this 8.5 update.
 
any ideas folks?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

thank you for the response.
the clean install is to remove clutter.
 
no way of extracted from previous versions disc any libraries?
 
seems odd keeping old versions but i have seen it with other software and it caused issues if it doesn't with sonar thats cool as it's not like space is aproblem.
 
thanks again. 

thanks a lot for the custom tip i didn't remember seeing it before during the install (they offered us a $9.99 upgrade via the store which i think removed the Asus Xonar branding and probably also a reg file/or shortcut which allowed Sonar, Powerdvd and Ableton to open from a little slide out on the Xonar D2X Audio Center and all still work except sonar. i may just wipe out sonar and start fresh) but use it for office and other apps this may end up being one of them ;)
 
dunmb question.....  well maybe not for someone new to this but in na comparison chart i notice previous le versions went to 192 while 8.5le only goes to 96k
 
why would they do that?
 
isn't that a step back?
 
again thanks

while i was on the ball enough to burn to disc albeton update fro 6 thru 8 i wasn't quite awake enough to do the same for sonar. nor can i find them on any page at cakewalk.

i have version 6le and the $9,99 update offered to us for 8.5 through the store.

i remember a version 8.03 but can't find that or any other one than listed above.

wonder if cakewalk support can help me with them?

There is only SONAR LE 4, SONAR LE 6, and SONAR LE 8.5. There were no other versions that I'm aware of. SONAR Studio and SONAR Producer have had quite a few versions in between the versions of SONAR LE.

Here is a short list of patches/updates available for free download for registered owners of licenses of the various versions of SONAR to which they apply:

== SONAR 8.5 Updates ==
*SONAR 8.5.2
*SONAR 8.5.1

== SONAR 8 Updates ==
*SONAR 8.3.1
*SONAR 8.3.0
*SONAR 8.0.2
*SONAR 8.0.1

== SONAR 7 Updates ==
*SONAR 7.0.3
*SONAR 7.0.2
*SONAR 7.0.1

== SONAR 6 Updates ==
*SONAR 6.2.1
*SONAR 6.2
*SONAR 6.0.1

== SONAR 5 Updates ==
*SONAR 5.2
*SONAR 5.0.1

== SONAR 4 Updates ==
*SONAR 4.0.4
*SONAR 4.0.3
*SONAR 4.0.2

== SONAR 3 Updates ==
*SONAR 3.1.1

== SONAR 2 Updates ==
*SONAR 2.2 Patch
*Cakewalk VST Adapter Patch
*Cakewalk Audio Finder Tool