clintmartin
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Cleaning house. Safest way to uninstall X1, X2, X3.
Will using uninstall programs in Windows harm anything, or should I do it manually?
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Re: Cleaning house. Safest way to uninstall X1, X2, X3.
2017/03/14 01:48:03
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clintmartin
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Re: Cleaning house. Safest way to uninstall X1, X2, X3.
2017/03/14 01:59:21
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I meant "add remove programs" in Win 7. Thanks for the link.
I don't want to remove Platinum.
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Re: Cleaning house. Safest way to uninstall X1, X2, X3.
2017/03/14 02:19:55
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The cleanest way is to remove them all, then install what you need, oldest to newest if you want to keep more than one version.
But you also may need to consider that the Sonar programs and features do not take much disk space. Leaving them in place is the easy way. Some plugins that you may have used in projects are not always available in the latest version of Sonar.
The missing plugins can be recovered after installing the latest version of Sonar, by running the previous Sonar installers in advanced mode and selecting only the plugins you wish to install, while skipping the program files, etc.
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Re: Cleaning house. Safest way to uninstall X1, X2, X3.
2017/03/14 04:02:45
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If you use VVocal keep X2 or X3. It's the only "plugin" that is tied to the actual Sonar".exe. You must keep either one installed.
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Re: Cleaning house. Safest way to uninstall X1, X2, X3.
2017/03/14 04:23:32
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V-Vocal is not really "tied" to the exe, it is part of the minimal SONAR install. After installation it is possible to manually remove everything except the V-Vocal folder and the plug-in will still work.
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Re: Cleaning house. Safest way to uninstall X1, X2, X3.
2017/03/14 04:40:24
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on the installation side you need to allow the Sonar Exe to install to get VVocal, which I though appropriate considering the last line or two of the post before mine. Just trying to keep things simple.
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Re: Cleaning house. Safest way to uninstall X1, X2, X3.
2017/03/14 11:18:47
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☄ Helpfulby abacab 2017/03/14 16:13:44
Unless you really really need the disk space I would advise against uninstalling them at all. You may lose plugins and features that are tied to those Sonar versions. The older installations don't really negatively affect the performance of Platinum and even the program folders on disk don't take up that much space - the shared content is by far the most and you won't be deleting that anyway.
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clintmartin
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Re: Cleaning house. Safest way to uninstall X1, X2, X3.
2017/03/14 14:10:13
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Yeah, I'm starting to think just leaving everything would be best. I'm not having any issues, and it sounds like I may create some for myself if I start messing around to much.
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Re: Cleaning house. Safest way to uninstall X1, X2, X3.
2017/03/14 14:30:12
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Re: Cleaning house. Safest way to uninstall X1, X2, X3.
2017/03/14 15:14:11
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Good point. FWIW, I recently moved to a new laptop and installed X2 specifically to get V Vocal and R Mix functionality (the former only for compatibility with old projects). It's true that you can do a "cleaner" install by doing a custom install that way but it seems a bit over the top to first remove everything and then reinstall partway.
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Re: Cleaning house. Safest way to uninstall X1, X2, X3.
2017/03/14 16:18:25
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I have found that by assigning the Cakewalk Content path to a separate drive keeps the big stuff off of my boot/system drive. Less work to keep the system clean that way! 
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Re: Cleaning house. Safest way to uninstall X1, X2, X3.
2017/03/14 16:48:48
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I try to set all the cakewalk paths to my Raid 1 HDDs. I do strongly dislike the default trend when installing all software to be automatically set to the C drive as I dont want my boot SSD getting clogged.
I wish that software nowadays always asked which drive you want it installed to, and including any sub directories.
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Re: Cleaning house. Safest way to uninstall X1, X2, X3.
2017/03/14 17:04:02
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+1!
If you don't mind spending a few minutes editing paths in Sonar preferences you can safely move the content folders to a location on a larger drive.
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Re: Cleaning house. Safest way to uninstall X1, X2, X3.
2017/03/14 17:14:45
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+1 My content and project folders are on another drive. You can also move content from the programs folder and create directory junctions if inclined to do so.
From a space perspective, also realize that Win7 includes your page file as "consumed space." Take that with a grain of salt.
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