kennywtelejazz
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Thank you Melodyne for making me go gray Way before my Time ..{ SOLVED }
Less than an hour ago I decided to activate Melodyne on my lap top ...after downloading it I go to authorize my copy .. My second activation of two . After jumping through all the online hoops I open SONAR and I have lost 6 months of my work on this computer...... all my SONAR projects are gone ...  there is not even one SONAR project on my computer any more       My Cakewalk project folder is empty ?????????  thank you it has been a real joy Kenny
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Re: Thank you Melodyne for hosing my whole computer & losing 6 months of my SONAR Projec
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☄ Helpfulby kennywtelejazz 2016/08/21 07:48:50
Unbelievable. Actually so unbelievable it reminds me of my dates with Generative Variant Katzy.
It happened on a friends PC, luckily. The malware cut all connections to all files, reporting all files are empty.
I could rescue all data with a Knoppix-boot disc (Linux based).
It's hard to imagine a download/installation/registration failure that would actually delete files, especially ones that are not objects of the actual task!!
I really hope there's a solution to this.
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Re: Thank you Melodyne for hosing my whole computer & losing 6 months of my SONAR Projec
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☄ Helpfulby kennywtelejazz 2016/08/21 07:48:45
I am so glad I do a nightly backup. It has seriously saved my butt on so many occasions.
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Re: Thank you Melodyne for hosing my whole computer & losing 6 months of my SONAR Projec
2016/08/21 05:59:39
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☼ Best Answerby kennywtelejazz 2016/08/21 07:26:36
I can't see how it is possible for this to happen from a simple Melodyne activation so take a deep breath and try to take a logical approach to finding your projects
Perhaps the file paths have been reset?
Were your projects stored on a different drive? - Sonar is looking on your C drive currently
Are you able to do a Windows search for ".cwp" files on your whole computer
I hope it is just a file path issue and the projects are still there somewhere...
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Re: Thank you Melodyne for hosing my whole computer & losing 6 months of my SONAR Projec
2016/08/21 06:18:24
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Kalle Rantaaho
Unbelievable. Actually so unbelievable it reminds me of my dates with Generative Variant Katzy.
It happened on a friends PC, luckily. The malware cut all connections to all files, reporting all files are empty.
I could rescue all data with a Knoppix-boot disc (Linux based).
It's hard to imagine a download/installation/registration failure that would actually delete files, especially ones that are not objects of the actual task!!
I really hope there's a solution to this.
I'm not really sure what some of what you are saying means .... I do not run cracks and all my software is legit ...everything period .... Hope that is not what your saying ..I may just be sensitive right now  Just got done checking every other DAW on this machine and all is well over on that end ... This is very odd that this has happened ...the only thing I can think off is maybe Melodyne cleared my stuff out because I did have a lot of edits from a previous version ..the one that came w X3 .... even then I only used it in player mode ... Yes I agree , I hope there is a solution ..thanks for trying ... promidi
I am so glad I do a nightly backup. It has seriously saved my butt on so many occasions.
Admittedly I have been lax about backing up to an external HD ... The one I have been using has gotten full and I had every intention of picking up another one .... sheeeshhh ...it was on my short list ....oh well ...live and learn ... Kenny
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Re: Thank you Melodyne for hosing my whole computer & losing 6 months of my SONAR Projec
2016/08/21 06:38:24
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☄ Helpfulby kennywtelejazz 2016/08/21 07:48:36
Hi Ken I know what it is like to lose a lot of stuff on the computer. I had my whole mp3 and Flac music collection of music from prog rock up until today suddenly disappear after pressing a wrong button somewhere and my go back feature was switched off. If the worse comes to the worse there is a program called recover my files but it is not cheap. It would cost about £50 or £60 /or $120 to buy . Better still If someone can help you out who has the knowledge. I paid for it as It was a lifetime of music and well worth the layout "All my memories". Recover my files got the lot back for me,But It took a whole night and part of the next day to get back as It Is slow.also it freezes sometimes and you have to start again.That was probably something to do with my old slow computer. That was my experience ,but you may have a great friend who can help you out If your work Is valuable to you. Good luck mate all the best John Ps Always without fail back up to a separate hard drive and stick that away In your bottom drawer.  Lucky for me, I cannot sing.
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Re: Thank you Melodyne for hosing my whole computer & losing 6 months of my SONAR Projec
2016/08/21 06:43:19
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☄ Helpfulby kennywtelejazz 2016/08/21 07:30:04
Check the paths where Sonar is expecting to find your projects in the Command Centre
I too find it extremely unlikely that a third party program would even be able to delete all of your project files along with all the audio
This must be a paths issue
What does Windows Explorer say? Are your projects still in there?
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kennywtelejazz
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Re: Thank you Melodyne for hosing my whole computer & losing 6 months of my SONAR Projec
2016/08/21 07:06:29
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Boydie
I can't see how it is possible for this to happen from a simple Melodyne activation so take a deep breath and try to take a logical approach to finding your projects
Perhaps the file paths have been reset?
Were your projects stored on a different drive? - Sonar is looking on your C drive currently
Are you able to do a Windows search for ".cwp" files on your whole computer
I hope it is just a file path issue and the projects are still there somewhere...
It is possible ...it happened to me ...I appreciate your help IMHO Melodyne 's activation is somewhat far from being simple ...it's a little bit of a pain .... big reason why I didn't bother on this computer .... I have tried to find my projects , they are gone ...there is no path , there is nothing .... my last posted pic shows my Cakewalk Project folder ... something must be up because the size on disk is different than what the folder property lists ... Paths reset ? I may go and check what SONAR has listed in preferences ..maybe that changed .. Let me edit this now ....you sir have been of great help to me thank you ... I did a search for "cwp " files and nothing showed up except for one project I had placed in my user name documents folder .... as I was writing this post I kept getting the vibe you may be on to something with the reset angle ... I opened up Splat and did a check on what my folder options were ... All my projects have gotten moved over to the apps roaming folder .... I certainly did not put them there  nor did I change my preferences in SONAR .... Whew ...what a scare this has been ...hate to say it but I got all the new gray hairs to show it .... thank you so much , Kenny
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Re: Thank you Melodyne for hosing my whole computer & losing 6 months of my SONAR Projec
2016/08/21 07:06:44
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☄ Helpfulby kennywtelejazz 2016/08/21 07:48:29
You could try using a file undelete utility (e.g. Recuva, which is free). Try and avoid writing anything to the disk in the meantime - don't even install Recuva on the machine if you can avoid it, download the portable version on another PC and put it on a pen drive. https://www.piriform.com/recuva/builds Note: this all assumes that the files have actually been deleted and not just moved somewhere. Does it look like this is the case from the amount of free disk space? AMB Edit: Glad to see you got your stuff back while I was typing that! I'll leave the post here in case it is of any use to anyone else in future.
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kennywtelejazz
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Re: Thank you Melodyne for hosing my whole computer & losing 6 months of my SONAR Projec
2016/08/21 07:12:09
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igiwigi
Hi Ken
I know what it is like to lose a lot of stuff on the computer.
I had my whole mp3 and Flac music collection of music from prog rock up until today suddenly disappear after pressing a wrong button somewhere and my go back feature was switched off.
If the worse comes to the worse there is a program called recover my files but it is not cheap.
It would cost about £50 or £60 /or $120 to buy .
Better still If someone can help you out who has the knowledge.
I paid for it as It was a lifetime of music and well worth the layout "All my memories".
Recover my files got the lot back for me,But It took a whole night and part of the next day to get back as It Is slow.also it freezes sometimes and you have to start again.That was probably something to do with my old slow computer.
That was my experience ,but you may have a great friend who can help you out If your work Is valuable to you.
Good luck mate
all the best
John
Ps Always without fail back up to a separate hard drive and stick that away In your bottom drawer.
Lucky for me, I cannot sing.
I dodged the bullet this time and got very lucky .....thanks for your help I know for a fact that I would have never figured out how to solve this one on my own ... thank you forum Kenny
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Re: Thank you Melodyne for hosing my whole computer & losing 6 months of my SONAR Projec
2016/08/21 07:26:29
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Bristol_Jonesey
Check the paths where Sonar is expecting to find your projects in the Command Centre
I too find it extremely unlikely that a third party program would even be able to delete all of your project files along with all the audio
This must be a paths issue
What does Windows Explorer say? Are your projects still in there?
Here's what happened .... Before I installed and activated Melodyne 4 my Cakewalk projects folder path was set to this PC OS C drive . This PC laptop I use for all my musical DAW studying ...all I want out of this machine is to have everything there where I can access it all and create little tutorial SONAR projects to learn new things ( too me ) The short story is I started getting good at a few things loop construction , mix recall , and a number of od ball projects I had plans to have developed further ...to bring over to my main PC ... When I upgraded Melodyne earlier this morning ,for some odd unknown reason my projects got moved with out me even knowing it ... If I had know it was gonna do that I wouldn't be over here sqwaking like a turkey seeking a pardon on the day before Thanksgiving ... sorry about the confusion ...I will check to see what the CCC has listed for this PC all the best , thank you Kenny
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Re: Thank you Melodyne for hosing my whole computer & losing 6 months of my SONAR Projec
2016/08/21 07:28:29
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AntManB
You could try using a file undelete utility (e.g. Recuva, which is free). Try and avoid writing anything to the disk in the meantime - don't even install Recuva on the machine if you can avoid it, download the portable version on another PC and put it on a pen drive.
https://www.piriform.com/recuva/builds
Note: this all assumes that the files have actually been deleted and not just moved somewhere. Does it look like this is the case from the amount of free disk space?
AMB
Edit: Glad to see you got your stuff back while I was typing that! I'll leave the post here in case it is of any use to anyone else in future.
Sure I'm glad you posted that link thank you all the best , Kenny
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Re: Thank you Melodyne for hosing my whole computer & losing 6 months of my SONAR Projec
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First, I would install a search tool and seach for .cwp files on the whole disc.
Maybe the files are moved or Sonar searches the files in an other directory.
Secondly: Maybe Microsoft has made an update and suddenly you have no rights for the folders.
Make sure you have admin rights.
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Re: Thank you Melodyne for hosing my whole computer & losing 6 months of my SONAR Projec
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I felt a wave of relief when you found the projects so I can only imagine what you felt!!!!!!
A timely reminder for everyone to BACK UP - I know what I will be doing later today!!!!
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Re: Thank you Melodyne for hosing my whole computer & losing 6 months of my SONAR Projec
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Is it possible you may not have noticed your projects missing until after you installed melodyne then just considered it must be melodyne? I'm not even sure how melodyne could do this ? just doesn't make sense.
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Re: Thank you Melodyne for hosing my whole computer & losing 6 months of my SONAR Projec
2016/08/21 08:27:01
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The melodyne install drove me nuts too. Went round in circles, and when I gave up, I found it had installed. No idea how I achieved it. Open from Sonar so I was cool. A few days later I tried standalone, and even though it had created an icon, it failed to open.I put off for another day.
Seeing this thread and i went to see what the opening error message on standalone was, but it just opened fine.
Maybe I've an install fairy that tides up after me.
Glad you are finding you files.
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Re: Thank you Melodyne for hosing my whole computer & losing 6 months of my SONAR Projec
2016/08/21 10:14:45
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THambrecht
First, I would install a search tool and seach for .cwp files on the whole disc.
Maybe the files are moved or Sonar searches the files in an other directory.
Secondly: Maybe Microsoft has made an update and suddenly you have no rights for the folders.
Make sure you have admin rights.
Which search tool are you recommending , is it a 3 rd party ? The files were actually moved against my consent . I'm very lucky to have found them ... I thought I did have admin rights since every thing I do is as an admin ....apparently admin is a rather loose term now a days ....thank you for trying to help me ..... Boydie
I felt a wave of relief when you found the projects so I can only imagine what you felt!!!!!!
A timely reminder for everyone to BACK UP - I know what I will be doing later today!!!!
Boydie , I just backed up all my Cakewalk projects from this computer to 3 separate HD's ... Also re routed my SONAR preferences to where they were before the update ...where I want them to be .. I'm sort of still on edge due to all of this Jazz ...Thank you for all the help and kind thoughts chuckebaby
Is it possible you may not have noticed your projects missing until after you installed melodyne then just considered it must be melodyne? I'm not even sure how melodyne could do this ? just doesn't make sense.
No , The projects that became missing were the same exact projects I have been working on almost non stop for about 12 hours with out a glitch .... I wish I knew what the answer was ...I don't ... I know you are trying to help me and I do appreciate it , honestly I do ... Kamikaze
The melodyne install drove me nuts too. Went round in circles, and when I gave up, I found it had installed. No idea how I achieved it. Open from Sonar so I was cool. A few days later I tried standalone, and even though it had created an icon, it failed to open.I put off for another day.
Seeing this thread and i went to see what the opening error message on standalone was, but it just opened fine.
Maybe I've an install fairy that tides up after me.
Glad you are finding you files.
Talk about a runaround ... I'm still not having it show it activated my license .... I go to their web site and use the serial number they gave me in my account and Melodyne still keeps the dialog box open  Thank you , your story gave me a little hope Edit ...today Melodyne took my serial number ..all seems well for now all the best , Kenny
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