Thanks Ryan,  that was quick!  Many thanks indeed.
 
Ok, I've done all that and I think I'm now all set.  My Cmd listing looks right now - it looked like the first picture before... 
(Again, can someone make this topic sticky please?)
 
John

tKx5050


type cmd into the search bar, when it shows up in the list then right click and choose run as administrator. From the dos box run the fsutil command.

lol, you can tell I've only just moved away from XP huh??


Thanks for that :-)

synkrotron

we all have to work through the gotcha stages. Next thing you'll discover is that whenever you install anything, just make it a habit to right-click on the installer and choose "run as administrator". Save you some grief down the road

tKx5050


synkrotron

we all have to work through the gotcha stages. Next thing you'll discover is that whenever you install anything, just make it a habit to right-click on the installer and choose "run as administrator". Save you some grief down the road

Or get the Revo installer/uninstaller - it's very nice.

Any reason why this isn't sticky anymore?  I know there's now an excellent Knowledge Base article but that's only visible if you happen to go there hunting for a solution.

manual stickiness vailable via bumping

i'm genuinely curious as to how this pans out, SFNs are definitely being phased out in win8 by ms and judging by the workaround the sonar dependency goes all the way back to the original fxpansion vst-adapter which suffered the same issue - is sonar still using that same code for VSTs? see http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=561734&mpage=1 or http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=62456&mpage=1 for example, same issue...

SONAR continues to use the ID generation scheme that earlier versions used. This had to be done for backwards compatibility with earlier projects or VST's saved in projects would never load.

For the next update to be more Win8 compatible, I am experimenting with a more robust ID generation mechanism that is long file name aware. i.e. we wont have the problem with short names colliding because you have the same 8.3 name in different folders. Its a complicated problem though. For backwards compatibility we cannot completely abandon the short file name scheme, so I use a combination of the two approaches - I save the legacy CLSID as well as the new "high resolution" GUID and only X2 will use the new one.

BTW regarding stickiness: Not actually sure who stickied it. I changed it simply for the reason that we HAVE a Knowledge Base. It's sole purpose IS for important topics like this. I would encourage people to rely on visiting it from time to time and not just checking out the latest stickies. If we stickied everything (articles and/or conversations) we thought were important for customers to be aware of... then this would be an entire forum of stickies. It might even start to look like a knowledge base after a while... and not a forum :) You ever work with someone who puts sticky notes up about EVERYTHING? It eventually becomes a moot point since they all seem to linger and nothing really gets done... not to mention it becomes harder to find what you're looking for. While I do think this is an important topic... in my many years of working tech support its come up fewer times than I can count on one hand.

@noel - thanks for the info, good news wrt an updated implementation :)
@ryan - maybe a sticky advertsing the knowledge base itself then?