scook

nvp1971
That's exactly the thread I was looking for and somehow could not find on my own.  Thanks, scook!
 

Here is the magic Google search string I used
site:forum.cakewalk.com noel bundle riff wave
The thread  with message 1417418 was the first returned

Also, you referenced forum thread 653751 in that thread but that item seems to be gone now.  Do you recall the details of this?

The message is still there, use the new FindPost function http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/653751.

scook
The message is still there, use the new FindPost function .

Interesting!  So looks like I would have to extract each audio chunk (guess it's 16-byte boundaries between those), then dig into the cwp to see what length of audio I would need to extract from which chunk.
 
Maybe not worth the time but now I'm intrigued.
 

Your best shot without help from Cakewalk tech support would be to try to open the bundle with the version of Sonar that you used to create it. Then save it from that version as a per project folder and open that in a more recent version of Sonar.

bapu
 
The other aha! moment was that I should probably open every project once after any major upgrade from CW (unless a patch was to address a specific project related opening problem).
 
Since I pretty much have upgraded (thus far) for each new version that process insures that at least once a year I will be verifying that all my past projects still "work" .

 
Yep, I do that too, and that's why I precede each filename with the SONAR version, e.g. "X2_", X3_"
Helps tons when refreshing old projects in new DAW s/w.

You know, I got SOOOOOOOOO tired of trying to figure out the best way to back up projects that all I do now is back up the  Cakewalk Projects folder on the C: drive and back up the Audio folder on the desktop.  Then if I ever have an HDD crisis I will just put the backed up Cakewalk Project folder into the C: drive and the Audio folder back on the desktop.  Then everything should link from there, right?
 
John B.