Expectations rise during product roll out because devs get active on the forums. I wonder if the new membership model means a greater company presence on the forums? Either way, undocumented features, especially the more obvious ones like menu options, need to be sent to support so the responsible team gets a request to update the documentation.

John
I have a feeling that I maybe over thinking this. 

Probably.
 
It works exactly the same as it does in Excel, Word etc.
 
The current file which is loaded into memory will not be overwritten when you "save as". It creates a brand new version.
all these programs give you the opportunity to change the file location and lots of toher stuff as well before the save is written - file type & file name being the obvious ones.
 
You can also use "save as" to keep the same name but file it in a different location.

bapu
Mine was 7 minutes ago. Yours was 6 minutes ago. That's like 100M pico-seconds.

Actually 60E10 ps. When I first put up the post, both our posts were up "seconds ago", so I took a WAG lacking the resolution that I needed. Looks like I was off several orders of magnitude...

bapu
Kind of sad when on a peer-to-peer forum user explanation of function that has been tried by a peer is rejected.
 
Oh well. This forum is starting to sound like it needs to be renamed "Questions to Bakers Only (No Longer Peer-To-Peer Support)". Because this not the first time a response from CW is the only acceptable response by an OP.

Bapu that is uncalled for and totally wrong. That is not the point of this thread nor am I rejecting anything. I am unclear in my mind about this subject. I am asking this FORUM for help in trying to get an acceptable understanding for me. This is no reflection on the forum but a limitation I have.
 
I rely heavily on the CW documentation. When something is undocumented that is a real problem for me. One other reason I posted this thread is to alert CW about this problem.
 
You know my track record in my support of the Sonar forum. It really galls me that you would say such an obnoxious thing.  

Bristol_Jonesey

John
I have a feeling that I maybe over thinking this. 

Probably.
 
It works exactly the same as it does in Excel, Word etc.
 
The current file which is loaded into memory will not be overwritten when you "save as". It creates a brand new version.
all these programs give you the opportunity to change the file location and lots of toher stuff as well before the save is written - file type & file name being the obvious ones.
 
You can also use "save as" to keep the same name but file it in a different location.

Hi Colin-
 
That's "Save As...", not the same thing. John's asking about "Save Copy As". There's now "Save," "Save As" and "Save Copy As." I asked about it here: http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3167737 and the question was answered; it's just not documented.


-Susan

Bah! I was going to try to drag the Help PDF from the DAW to my lappy but apparently to access it I had to run the Help and Tuts installer which installed all that extra content for the tuts.
 
Now I can't find the isolated PDF. Anyone know where I can find it so I can toss it on a USB key and put it with the rest of my documentation?
 
I was actually going to see if I could find any reference to the Save Copy As function for you (even though I'm sure you've checked but who knows... maybe it's buried in there).
 
Anyhoo... this feature is going to be AWESOME for me if it works the way I think it does. I much prefer the snapshot method as I reach various stages of a project.

Yes this seems to be a very cool feature...I save Alt versions all the time using "save as" and run the risk of accidentally overwriting something I do not want to overwrite while bouncing back and forth.  This saves me a step or two and removes the "dang, I did not mean to do that" moment I experience every now and then.
 

John

bapu
Kind of sad when on a peer-to-peer forum user explanation of function that has been tried by a peer is rejected.
 
Oh well. This forum is starting to sound like it needs to be renamed "Questions to Bakers Only (No Longer Peer-To-Peer Support)". Because this not the first time a response from CW is the only acceptable response by an OP.

Bapu that is uncalled for and totally wrong. That is not the point of this thread nor am I rejecting anything. I am unclear in my mind about this subject. I am asking this FORUM for help in trying to get an acceptable understanding for me. This is no reflection on the forum but a limitation I have.
 
I rely heavily on the CW documentation. When something is undocumented that is a real problem for me. One other reason I posted this thread is to alert CW about this problem.
 
You know my track record in my support of the Sonar forum. It really galls me that you would say such an obnoxious thing.  

 
And when the forum answers (i.e. WallyG and I) you respond with (in your post 7):
 

John
Right.  That is what people say but I would like something documented  from CW. It isn't that I don't appreciate what the forum is saying on it. I just am not completely sure if that is the full story. 

 
Why is it not the "full story" when multiple people tell you what it does after trying it?
 

Beepster
Bah! I was going to try to drag the Help PDF from the DAW to my lappy but apparently to access it I had to run the Help and Tuts installer which installed all that extra content for the tuts.
 
Now I can't find the isolated PDF. Anyone know where I can find it so I can toss it on a USB key and put it with the rest of my documentation?
 
I was actually going to see if I could find any reference to the Save Copy As function for you (even though I'm sure you've checked but who knows... maybe it's buried in there).
 
Anyhoo... this feature is going to be AWESOME for me if it works the way I think it does. I much prefer the snapshot method as I reach various stages of a project.

On my system its under Programs Files/Cakewalk/Sonar Platinum. 

bapu

John

bapu
Kind of sad when on a peer-to-peer forum user explanation of function that has been tried by a peer is rejected.
 
Oh well. This forum is starting to sound like it needs to be renamed "Questions to Bakers Only (No Longer Peer-To-Peer Support)". Because this not the first time a response from CW is the only acceptable response by an OP.

Bapu that is uncalled for and totally wrong. That is not the point of this thread nor am I rejecting anything. I am unclear in my mind about this subject. I am asking this FORUM for help in trying to get an acceptable understanding for me. This is no reflection on the forum but a limitation I have.
 
I rely heavily on the CW documentation. When something is undocumented that is a real problem for me. One other reason I posted this thread is to alert CW about this problem.
 
You know my track record in my support of the Sonar forum. It really galls me that you would say such an obnoxious thing.  

 
And when the forum answers (i.e. WallyG and I) you respond with (in your post 7):
 

John
Right.  That is what people say but I would like something documented  from CW. It isn't that I don't appreciate what the forum is saying on it. I just am not completely sure if that is the full story. 

 
Why is it not the "full story" when multiple people tell you what it does after trying it?
 

I guess you missed the part where I say "This is no reflection on the forum but a limitation I have."
You might ask yourself what that limitation might be. Could be a cognitive issue? BTW which is none of your concern.