I was having trouble loading some projects and I mis-interpreted the "safe mode" start (holding SHIFT while loading) to mean holding SHIFT while opening SPLAT, not the individual projects.
 
Well, I said YES to the prompt about reverting settings and now I have no screensets... the selections are empty and choosing one of those empty screensets changes nothing.
 
Is there any way to reverse this and go back to my old settings, or at least the defaults?

Restoring a backup is the only way I know to get files back that have been altered or removed by accident.
 
Screensets are stored per-project so changing SONAR configuration should not affect them.
 
I did not think a partial personalization (SHIFT while opening SONAR) overwrote data, it should only replacing missing files in the user directory. A full personaliztion overwrites files in the user directory and restores some registry settings. It is launched by hold the CTRL key while starting SONAR or renaming the SONAR Platinum folder in %appdata%\cakewalk as described here

OK so if I held SHIFT while opening the project in safe mode to choose which plugins to disable, would that cause the screensets for that project to disappear?

I just tested safe mode in 2017.06.0.21. It appears ScreenSets are removed during the process. You can get them back by importing them from another project, see https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR&language=3&help=WindowManagement.09.html#1260131
 

Thank you!

MakerDP
OK so if I held SHIFT while opening the project in safe mode to choose which plugins to disable, would that cause the screensets for that project to disappear?

No not at all. I have opened in safe mode many times and never lost Screensets.
Screensets are stored and saved within your project. If you lost screensets, I suspect a Lens possibly being the culprit. Are you using Lenses ?
 
You can also load a project with stored screensets and import them to another project.

scook
I just tested safe mode in 2017.06.0.21. It appears ScreenSets are removed during the process. You can get them back by importing them from another project, see https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR&language=3&help=WindowManagement.09.html#1260131
 

My apology's. I have not tried Safe mode in a few months and this never happened to me.
Must be something new.

OK now I have a bigger issue... I cannot open any projects that use the Two Note Wall of Sound III plugin.
 
This is the source of all my woes apparently and is frustrating to say the least! I'm not sure I will be open any old projects without safe mode at all since I use it pretty much for all my guitar tracking.
 

I cannot say having only tested safe mode. Cannot recall ever needing the feature. I did not test older versions to see if/when this changed but after reading your initial post I just blew up my test project to verify the current process. Might be a bug or by design, only CW knows for sure.

The minimum requirements for that plug in require an Audio interface. what are you using ?
http://www.two-notes.com/en/wall-of-sound