** WARNING - THIS POST WAS WRITTEN BY A REALLY PISSED OFF USER **
Before you reply with something like "Your thread title should be more helpful", that is my point.
I have put off upgrading from X3e for years because I worried it would not go smoothly and I would lose days of work time, and turned out I was right. When installing Professional from Command Center, after some downloading time I get the error "Sorry, a problem occurred" with a suggestion to contact support. So very helpful.
I had a trial version of Sonar Professional on the machine already, so I followed the instructions on performing a clean install by removing registry folders etc., but I still get the same error. I am leaving X3e on my machine, so I said No to All when it asked me if I wanted to removed shared files.
And since when has Cakewalk resorted to email support only? Since I can't be at the DAW workstation all day long, email only means this process is going to take days. Which is exactly why I have put off upgrading for so long.
So, Cakewalk support team: Here was my experience:
1. Spent a bunch of money on Sonar Professional
2. Got Command Center installed
3. Tried to install Sonar Professional. Two buttons: "Install" and "Install All". Huh? Install All what? Well, I don't want some sort of partial install, so I guess I'll choose "Install All". "A problem occurred". A message popped up briefly saying something about a problem with downloaded files, and that I should click the Download button to get the rest of them. Or something like that. The message disappeared before I could catch it all. And oh.... WHAT DOWNLOAD BUTTON????
4. Went to Control Panel to uninstall my trial version of Sonar Professional
5. Sonar Professional was not listed in Program in Control Panel
6. Very confused now, started poring through support site
7. Found something that said I should uninstall from Command Center
8. Could not find uninstall option in Command Center
9. Went back to support pages, finally learned I need to RIGHT-CLICK the program entry to uninstall. NOT INTUITIVE!
10. Uninstalled Sonar Professional
11. Tried install again
12. Went to the support page to contact tech support
13. Discovered it was email only. I get 90 minutes a day at the DAW, so email is not practical
14. Looked through FAQ docs, found article on performing a clean install
15. Followed clean install instructions, including removing registry folders, etc.
16. Tried install again
17. "A problem occurred"
18. Returned to support page, filled out form for email support. Congrats, Cakewalk, I am now entirely pissed off.