Last sonar Update wreaked Havoc with my system

rcalligan
 I keep getting a crash while the song file is loading.  Here is the name of the error:
 
C:\Users\Audio\AppData\Roaming\Cakewalk\SONAR Platinum\MiniDumps\Plugins\_06082016_181851.dmp
 
It single handedly rendered any song with EWQL plug ins unable to be opened...the plug ins all open fine in stand alone... anyone have any ideas?
R

Have you opened in Sonar safe mode (Hold down shift while opening file to bypass plugins)?

Did you try a roll back?

You stated that "It single-handedly rendered any song with EWQL plug ins unable to be opened"

What safe will allow you to do is to open the project but selectively bypass the EWQL plugins in the process, which may allow you to al least open the project(s). (albiet without the EWQL plug ins loaded)

To roll back to the previous version of Platinum, you open up the Cakewalk Command Centre, Right click "Platinum" and select "Rollback" and then select the version that you wish to roll back to.

I did the safe mode thing and at least was able to salvage the lead vocal... you are a lifesaver.  Thank you so much... in terms of the roll back... not so good.  Anything related to EWQL immediately crashes... even when I go 4 versions back.  It will work with EWQL piano if I create a new project, but no matter what I do the EWQL reverb is completely unusable.  However in standalone the reverb opens and sounds fine... 
 
When you are writing you are in one side of your brain... being a tech support guy requires the other side... hence the reason I get so frustrated with the constant problems I have with this stuff.  I used to just love Sonar... but its become so buggy that I bought a Mac... who knows I may find out that the problem lies between the chair and the keyboard :)... we'll see.  I read they are experimenting with a Mac version of Sonar.... perhaps the stability factor would be better in that setting.  Sonar is so intuitive and easy to use...I am really going to miss some of their functions.  Thanks again for your help!!   

+1 on uninstall and reinstall EWQL and Play, as well as EW Download Center.  They can glitch out and screw things up but reinstalling fixes it for me.  Also, lack of RAM (no, not Rack of Lamb) can be a problem and destabilze projects with lots of large EW samples.

One other thing: if you've recently updated the Play engine, verify that the DLL is in the location where Sonar reports it. I've had a Play update drop a DLL in a different folder than the previous version and Sonar kept trying to load the old version, but it no longer worked because the Play update broke it.
 
Regards,
Dan
 

If you have Sonar X3 or earlier, try to open the project with it.
I have had success opening corrupted Platinum projects in X3.
You will get a message saying the project was saved in a newer version of Sonar and you might lose some features, but it saved my butt!
 
 

Thank you to everyone for responding,... Dan was right... the update from EWQL Spaces put the new dll file in another folder.  I simply copied it to the one that Sonar scans and bam everything started working.  I have probably used up my quota of questions for one lifetime, but now that I "rolled back" the version of Sonar (to see if that resolved the issue) I can no longer find a way to reverb forward to the newest version... Does rolling back lock everything in time permanently or is there another way to update....?
thanks again... this forum and the people in it are very helpful

Alston is the version that's running right now... it shows the latest version (or the current version) on the CC front page, but there's no active link to update to the newest version.  When I right click on Sonar Platinum it shows that I am running the older version, but all the text is green indicating that there is no update available.