[SOLVED] Mix down hangs and doesn't complete

Hello all and a Happy Thanksgiving to all (even those who don't observe it),
 
I have a mixdown issue.
 
I use "Bounce to tracks" and the mix goes nowhere (The "mixing down audio" bar in the Control view is not moving.
 
I'm running Sonar Plat on a Windows 8.1 machine with plenty of ram and hard drive space.
 
I've been mixing steadily with many different projects since May 2016 and this is my first mix issue.
 
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Ray (aka Oluon)
 
(Note: I have deleted all the aux tracks.)
 
This is the first project that I've used aux tracks on (3 aux tracks - (not aux buses)) and now the mixdown meter in the control bar ("Mixing down audio") doesn't show any progress, even after about a 5 minute wait.
 
I'm guessing that it is an aux track issue, because if I try to mix down the tracks which are actually feeding the aux track (but not the aux track itself), I get an immediate mixdown result.
 

I would try disabling all effects plugins first, and try a mix down.  If still no love, start disabling VSTs one by one.  When you find a culprit and get a mix down that works, start to enable all of the effects and VSTs that work, and start again.  I have also noticed that SPLAT sometimes gets upset if using 32bit and 64bit plugins together.

^^^ listen to Chuck - try exporting rather than bouncing

Hi all,
 
Thanks for the input.
I think I may have found a cause, or THE cause.
 
I noticed that if I had a track with automation, some of the tracks had the automation lane showing a bar going out to ??? infinity???
 
I found a post by chuckebaby (I think) that advised one to select the actual project, in the time line at the top and then to select the tracks to be mixed.
This did the trick, but I still have a project that appears to be hours (if not months, years) long.
I don't know if this will affect the actual size of my project in the hard drive, because there are no files in that space beyond the actual song.
 
I'll look for that post and post it here, asap.
 
Thanks again for helping me.
 
Ray (aka Oluon)
 
 

Thanks, C,
 
I had followed the directions from the original post and I was flying those airplanes in no time flat - but having your instructions here in this post is even better.
 
I'm debating with myself, re: starting another post about the automation into eternity problem.
 
Ray (aka Oluon)