Yea, I've been having a weird problem since I upgraded to 8.5 with EZD...(but not SD2)...all my kits take FOREVER to load again, like they did when EZD was first released.  For the longest time they've loaded at a decent, almost acceptable clip...but no more.  Now it's 3, 4 sometimes 5 minutes to load, say, Nashville.  PITA. 

Men! That would be Great!!!! I totally support a Progress bar during song loading ! some times sonar looks like doing nothing and i'm tempted to press the CTrl-Alt_delete and stop the program because seems unresponsive But its not!!!! that progress bar and  background plugging information will be a Huge Visual Feedback Sonar its doing Good...and which pluggings are unresponsive!

You must be running a fairly old version of Sonar.
 
There's been a progress bar since X1, and this thread is 7 years old

if your ever having a problem opening a project (plug in related) use safe mode.
Hold down Shift and start Sonar.
 
Agree with BJ, this thread is 7 years old.
(my opinion:) nothing solid ever comes from digging up old threads.
the info is typically dated and useless.

Dated and useless??? Whatever.
I would like a progress bar...instead of a spinning wheel and a not responding warning whilst loading large projects. Using current Sonar at todays date.

Im pretty sure its soundtoys 5 plugins (that i need to run in jbridge for them to even load reliably) slowing down my project load times...would be great to know if it was still loading or crashed

Dated - yes, beyond question
Useless - yes, unless you're still running 8.5 or thereabouts.
 
But the bottom line is, as I stated earlier, Sonar DOES have a progress bar in the Control Bar and has been present since the X series was launched

The same bar as shows mixdown progress?

As i said...im using sonar platinum 22.8.0 build 29 and there is no project loading progress bar that i can see

im using the latest version of Sonar and I DO see the progress bar in when loading a project.
granted its fast (what can I say I have an I7 )
its in the same place the export project bar is.
typically heavy projects here open in 10 seconds or less. 
 
If you looking for a project progress indictor chances are a progress bar is the least of your trouble. it could be a failing hard drive, bad RAM, even a plug in causing the slow start up.
hope this helps.

IanPritchett
The same bar as shows mixdown progress?

As i said...im using sonar platinum 22.8.0 build 29 and there is no project loading progress bar that i can see

While Sonar has already loaded the project, any VSTs may still be loading in the background. Sonar doesn't know the progress of that process. You are unlikely to get what you are after from here. The way EastWest Play handles it is a small progress indicator floats on top of the project while the samples are loading. Kontakt does this too, but only for the initial sample check. The actual loading progress can only be seen in Kontakt itself.
 
When my projects get big, I basically open the project and do something else until the hard drive light(s) stop blinking, lol.
 
Dan
 
 
 

dcumpian
When my projects get big, I basically open the project and do something else until the hard drive light(s) stop blinking, lol.

There's something to be said for a pragmatic approach
 
I have noticed that if you open SONAR immediately after the Windows desktop shows, it takes a long time for a project to load. I thought it was a SONAR thing but Studio One exhibits the same behavior. I suspect it's because Windows is still doing things in the background that take priority over what any one application is doing.