So much for saving and versioning ... working on something this morning, saved it, shut down, came back 2 hours later, all the work I had done on one guitar track was gone ... poof ... vanished. No wav in the audio folder, nodda, zip, zero, zilch. Completely gone.

 
I've never experienced that with any version of Cakewalk (Pro Audio 4 up thru X1)...

Resurrecting this thread because Sonar continues to corrupt my projects when I dare use it.  Started with the X releases.  Sonar is the only DAW I've ever had corrupt projects.  Over the years, the program has become more and more unstable, for me.  No problems with other DAWs, though.  It's a shame, because I'd really like to use Sonar, as I enjoy it for music creation.  Finally learned my lesson the last time a project got screwed on a deadline, though.

> How many of you have had Sonar corrupt your project?  How can we deal with this? 
 
All files corrupt. Excel, Word, Pro Tools, grep ... whatever...
 
That's what backup strategies are for. I backup to my server as often as I can, I just wish Cake would facilitate this better. The autoupdate facility is not good enough, we need something more like gobbler, and we need version control.

I have to think something is wrong with your environment or there's an interoperability issue with a particular plugin you're using. I have never had a "corrupt" Cakewalk/SONAR project in almost 25 years - at least not to the point that it couldn't be opened in safe mode and fixed by disabling some 3rd-party plug that was causing trouble, and that very rarely.
 
In any case, I recommend you start a new thread if you have a particular project that has issues; otherwise it's just pointless "pot stirring" to resurrect this thread.

CakeAlexS
 
....... I backup to my server as often as I can, I just wish Cake would facilitate this better. The autoupdate facility is not good enough, we need something more like gobbler, and we need version control.

Alex, you do realize this thread was started in 2011?
And that Alex Niedt brought it back from the dead?
And we do have Goobler intergration?
And version control...well we got that don't we?
 

alexniedt
Resurrecting this thread because Sonar continues to corrupt my projects when I dare use it.  Started with the X releases.  Sonar is the only DAW I've ever had corrupt projects.  Over the years, the program has become more and more unstable, for me.  No problems with other DAWs, though.  It's a shame, because I'd really like to use Sonar, as I enjoy it for music creation.  Finally learned my lesson the last time a project got screwed on a deadline, though.

It really seems like you have an unusually high degree of issues regarding project corruption. I've had one corrupt project in 10+ years of using Sonar, and it was a beta of X1, so I can't be much help in terms of offering a solution.
 
The X1 release was not exactly Cakewalk's finest moment. As you say you've had problems with the X-series, I wonder if X1 did something weird in terms of code, and it has carried forward to installations of newer versions (e.g., some corruption in a "personalized" setting that gets transferred). This is just a wild guess, I'm clueless about code, but maybe someone more knowledgeable could chime in.

I've had a few in the past, but nothing prior to X1c Expanded
 
It's all been good since then.

Anderton
 
It really seems like you have an unusually high degree of issues regarding project corruption.
 
As you say you've had problems with the X-series, ...

Just thinking along the same lines here.
 
If I did have a corrupted project, I don't remember it. And the only time I couldn't open a project was because of a bad plug in.
 
Now I have had weird stuff happen to projects that I started long ago and had them go through several versions of Sonar.
 
What would you call a 'corrupt project?"

> And we do have Goobler intergration?


I don't want to use Goobler, I don't need somebody else to look after my data (who I don't know) and charge me, I want to use Samba, NTFS, FTP whatever.
 
> And version control...well we got that don't we?
 
Maybe with Gobbler but I'm not seeing any nice way of fully backing up and rolling back files within Sonar with Samba, NTFS, FTP, anything that's native.
 
And autobackup? - Nope don't trust that either, actually causes crashes IMHO.
 
Ta
 
Alex

One of the biggest culprits in project corruption for us was carrying forwards all of our prior Sonar install preferences.
This may be completely voodoo but, it wasn't until we started with a completely fresh install of the of X1 and then patched to expanded that all our problems went away. I loved how fast the feature made the install process and when your working on a deadline, its great. But completely wiping all prior versions of Sonar before the X series and starting from scratch made all the difference.
 
I know it sucks and its time consuming with all the additional plugs like Dimension Pro but the later installs of Dimension Pro allow you the choice of installing just the VST so you can keep your previous Multisamples directory intact.
 
And as far as backup,if you have a Gmail account, you already own Google Drive anyway for a cheap online storage option.
Just a thought...