Missing Audio Data

Its best to use Per Project Folders. That way you keep all of your project and audio files in the same folder. Then you can back up the folder and have everything in one place. CWB (Bundle) files are too big to be reliable so if you use Per Project folders, you don't need to save as a CWB. 

If have my project files set to go to e:\cakewalk\project files and if I don't use a Per Project folder, the audio goes into e:\cakewalk\project files\audio not where the preferences say Wave Files go so yours may be in c:\wip\audio.

Ya the bundle files are known to cause issues. 

What you can try and do is use windows search and use the names you tagged your audio tracks- example " Lead Guitar 1" or " Vox 1 " 
You'll soon find were they are all hiding.  

I had to stop using Sonar's pathways along time ago as for me they didn't always seem to work. 

The safest way I have found to NEVER loose tracks is to use windows to create the folder where you will store the album. Within this folder once again create a folder for each song. 

Open a template that you will use, and do a "save as CWP" and browse to the song folder you just created and name the song. Cakewalk will create an Audio folder inside that folder. Now everything is where it belongs. Forever.  

Now you can start recording the song, But make sure you give each audio track a title that is easily identified. There no point in having a million track 1 , 2 and 3's. 

For back up you can drag and drop the album or song folder to a second drive or do another "save as" and direct to a second drive... make sure you check copy audio with folder. I always have at least 3 copies of any given song stored.  I use a folder with the date in the second and third drives.    

Thanks guys. Lot of work ahead of me.

There is no option called Per Project Folder.

OK, well what do you call it in Preferences-File-Audio Data (in X2, but I'm sure it was in 8.5) there is a checkbox that says "Use Per-Project Audio Folders"? Sounds like an option to me. 

It's called Per Project Audio Folder, which contains only audio as default. There is nothing called Per Project Folder, that would, for example, include both audio and the project file as default.

If you have that option selected, it actually creates 2 folders: since my default project folder is set to e:\Cakewalk\Project Files it creates the following: 

Project Path: e:\Cakewalk\Project Files\Project Name
Audio Path: e:\Cakewalk\Project Files\Project Name\Audio

and I select the "Copy all audio with project option". 

Obviously you can change those paths to anything you want, but the default behavior is to make the Audio folder a subfolder of the Project Path and thereby putting all of the project information under the one folder.