This is why over the last two years I have been building non single points of failure in my studio with Hardware that is standalone.
 
I can trust my hardware, my instruments.... I cannot trust the utterly ridiculous notion that code can work together under an OS, whether it be a simple DLL file, or some other compatibility issue or the CS (customer Support to cope)...Its a crazy and unsustainable world of unreliability that I will quite simply not tolerate anymore.
 
No more single point of failure. Ever.

I don't really know what you have gone through to get to where you are now - sorry for whatever suffering and setbacks you have endured.
 
I have my Paths set in Cakewalk Command Center to download installers to one folder that lives on a different drive than my C:, and it also downloads Cakewalk Content to a location on that same alternative drive, so that only things that default to being placed in my AppData or the ProgramData folders are still being loaded to the C:, which for me is a 110 GB solid-state drive.
 
The libraries for Rapture and Dimension Pro, as well as Rapture Pro, for me - are also moved off the C:, so at the end of it all, I have over 50 GB of free space still there on my C:, out of the 110 GB starting size.
 
There is also the Verbose Install option in Command Center, which I understand launches the traditional, or at least more traditional, install path for a given Cakewalk component being installed through Command Center.
 
So, I am a bit unsure of what you have done or not done to have a bunch of content taking over your C:, and am wondering if some review of that would assist in helping you to move things away from that drive.
 
I am also quite curious as to what NI plugin you had/have so much trouble with - as I too am quite invested in NI software.  Please consider explaining that situation so I can better evaluate where I am with NI.
 
THANKS, 
 
Bob Bone
 
Bob Bone

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Thanks mate.
 
But my frustration continues now to Cake.....There are many elements that I have no control over to whether they install on to my OS drive. I do not want this.
 
Why cant I fully customise?
 
I have DL'd the separate components but as the installs whizz through (that I have pre defined in CCC) I can see them installing into the OS drive, creating folders. this is not cool.

Be very careful.
http://forum.cakewalk.com/Sonar-Platinum-custom-install-directory-broken-in-recent-versions-m3453872.aspx