How to setup a recording for future use

try this
 
edit select-all then delete all tracks
-then save the project as CWT=template..
-then do (edit-undo =delete tracks)
-then save your project as (normal)CWP
 
 
martin

Thanks for your replies.
 
Ok, yes that will work, however, it will be necessary to import every single track for each recording.
In this case, it would have to be done very often and time consuming.
 
What I thought I could do, and seem to remember doing this with older versions of years ago, is to have the same name for the audio files and change the audio files to newer ones. Sonar thinks it's the same song. I believe there was a slight issue of having the length of the initial project at least as long as the new one, and erasing the wav renderings in the Cake folder, but after that, it worked back then, or is my memory playing tricks on me?
 
Does anyone know if one can tell Sonar to not remember the audio files' full file path and just use the "Audio" relative subfolder in form where the cwp file resides? I thought maybe in an "ini" file, but haven't found it yet.
 
Dan

I worked on this again just now and am making progress, although I am not certain yet to have it all solved.
It involves using always the same "reference" folder to start mixing your songs, then re-saving a copy to a new folder.
 
1) Once you have mixed the first song, you can save a copy of it elsewhere on your drive along with all the audio files. This will now be your working copy for this song for future mix tweaking.
That leaves you with your original mix in the "reference"  folder to modify with another song's  data. So,
 
2) You replace your first song's wav files with your next song's files in the "reference" Audio folder. If the wav files are shorter, Sonar will replace the missing lengths with silence, but doesn't change the recorded parts.
You must have the same numbers of audio files from your 2nd song as the first one and all the files must have the same name and also the same length, or be shorter than the first song.
 
3) Open your first song in the "reference" folder which now points to the replaced wav files and then re-save a copy of it with the name of the newer song elsewhere on your drive for future tweaking of this 2nd song.
 
4) Repeat  2) and 3) for all your other songs.
 
The only other part you need to be aware is that your first mix should not contain any edits or automation, just eqs, effects, i.e. mixing info. When we make an edit, Sonar saves the edits as new wav files which may be a problem. So your mix should not have edits before re-saving a copy of it to a new folder. That shouldn't be a problem anyway, because future songs will not be needing these edits anyways.
 
Seems to work in my case, however I have only tried it once to confirm the principle.
The other operation is renaming your audio files so the names match.
To do this, I just use the multi-rename function in FreeCommander, the windows explorer replacement I use.
 
Cheers,
Dan