Thanks, guys, that should have been obvious.

Thanks everyone, spent the weekend copying all my settings from X3...so far, nothing but love for Platinum!!

I've been upgrading since X1. In every case the new version is asked to migrate my preferences. It catches all but one thing: that I use a drive besides C: for my project folder. I seem destined to forget this flaw every time, and eventually move my new projects to the external drive manually, while I retrain Sonar where to store them in the future.
 
 

Many of us made upgrade from X3 producer to SONAR Platinum. We had Rapture and Dimension Pro from previous installations.
I have all my Cakewalk software in a different secondary physical hard disk called E:\
I let X3 Producer and installed Platinum accepting the migration of all previous parameters.
After launching Command Center it only scans Cakewalk software in default directories (i.e. C:\program files\cakewalk\...) so the result is a red dot for both software (as they were unistalled).
 
If you unistall them and let Command Center download and reinstall both applications it will not ask you for different directory and will put in c:\... default position.....dimension Pro has over 3,5 GB of data...plus expansion pack....
 
In the Command Center options I found only download and VST directory.
 
I have Platinum, content files and VST under E:\Cakewalk\.... and would be fine to have also Rapture and Dimension Pro in the same location, even for backup purpose.
 
I even tried to make a manual installation of Rapture and Dimension Pro to E:\Cakewalk\... AFTER Platinum installation, but Command Center doesn't find both programs (still red dot) and they are considered unistalled (without proper search for future updates or fixes).
 
There is a way to set a different default path for all Cakewalk applications with Command Center?
 or alternatively
Any suggestion to force Command Center to scan installed software in NON default path locations?
 
Thanks for every tip and trick you will suggest...

I am not sure of the responses already posted.  They seemed more complicated than necessary.  The fast and easy way to migrate your preferences from an older installation to a new one is...  Hold down the Shift key when starting SONAR.  The migration prompt will appear and you can take it from there.
 
Kind regards,
 
tecknot

I did the Shift thing suggested above, but have no idea what it did.
 
Two things I want to get back are:
1.  my X3 normal template for new projects so hopefully they will be 24bit 48khz and the tracks laid out convenient starting point
2.  my audio FX plugin organization
 
What should I do?  Just go copy those X3 files and put them in the Platinum folder?

Yes, at least that's what I would do.
 
What can possibly go wrong?

Everything migrated correctly when I upgraded from X3 Producer to Platinum.  I have my Projects in a different location and I had to change that in the Preferences, but that isn't Cakewalk's fault that I have it in a location other than the default.