Intallin Sonar but not on C drive.

When you run the installer, look EVERYWHERE for drive letters and change them to what you want.  It works fine where ever it's installed.
 
However, there are still parts that get installed to C: by default, you can defeat this by using redirecting.  The installer thinks it's reading/writing to a folder on C: but it's actually going where you've redirected.
 
Unfortunately I'm not techie enough to tell you how to set that up...  I just know it can be done.

No problem. I ran SONAR on D: for years. If using Command Center to install, you will need to enable Verbose installation in Settings to get the legacy SONAR installer dialog so you can change the install path. Otherwise Command Center will default to C:. And you have to do that for every update; it won't automatically use the existing path.

IMO it's not worth the trouble.
 
SONAR and third-party plugins don't take up that much space, and disk performance isn't an issue, so the benefits are small. It's just samples that take up a lot of storage and I/O bandwidth, so there are plenty of reasons to site them elsewhere.
 
The issue isn't so much with SONAR itself, but rather installers for third-party utilities and plugins. They nearly always default to C:, and some make it unnecessarily difficult to switch to another drive. It's so much easier and less error-prone to simply accept their default pathnames every time.
 
Yes, you can use redirection as a kludge. But it really is a kludge, because regardless of what type of redirection you employ there is always the possibility of losing your mapping. Even when Microsoft itself does it, problems eventually ensue. 

Paul P

robert_e_bone
I did mine the old-fashioned way, and altered pointers within programs and/or the Registry, and physically moved data, ...

So have I but it requires constant vigilance and maintenance when updating or installing new components.  I'd decided to finally go the symbolic link route for my VST3 and Cakewalk user folders (a lot of stuff had already been moved by 'normal' methods) but have kept putting it off.  Thanks for the links and the reminder.  I just moved those two folders to my "Cakewalk and vst" partition on my ssd (which is unfortunately getting pretty tight with less than a gb free).
 
Sonar is blissfully ignorant of the changes made behind its back.
 

I am sure that the maintenance/vigilance requirements vary from person to person.  For ME, I only generally am adding sample sounds, as with my analog synths I can build whatever I please, not to mention I have gigantic swaths of tens of thousands of non-sampled presets already on my system.
 
So, for me it is easy to get installed sample library additions to go to the correct drive and path, and although I DO check once in a while on the health and well being of my primary drive (SSD), that's about it.
 
Bob Bone
 

I wouldn't worry too much, Paul. For you the worst-case scenario is your folder names start reverting to English, but most programs will continue to work. Windows always knows the path to system32 regardless of how it's displayed.
 
(BTW, I do know how annoying that is to French Canadians. I have many customers in Quebec, who get quite incensed when a message pops up in English. I am sympathetic, because some of them have as much trouble with English as I do with French.)