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2015/03/03 16:18:40 (permalink)

[Solved] Command Center Mess!

Hi, all - I usually like to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem, but Command Center has got me wrapped around the axle and I don't know how to get unwound.  In a nutshell, I have X3 Pro installed on my D: drive, but wanted to take advantage of Command Center's insistence on installing Platinum to the C: drive, so I expanded my C: partition and let Command Center have at it.  Mostly well and good, except that Command Center put all the Shared folders (Shared Midi Plugins, Shared DXi, Shared Utilities, etc.) in the old X3 location on the D: drive instead of on the C: drive.  So, methinks, I am a smart guy, I will just go tweak the registry and tell it that all the 'shared' folders are supposed to be on C:\Program Files\Cakewalk, then I move the 'shared' folders there and restart Platinum.  Platinum does not start, so I copy all the 'shared' folders back to the D: drive and everything works again.  I check the registry again, and everything points to C: like I want.  I run Platinum, open Preferences, run the VST reset after assuring my scan paths are pointing to C:, and then run the Plugin Manager, which indicates that all 'shared' content like Shared Midi Plugins and Shared Dxi are still being grabbed from the D: drive.  So, I reboot my system, thinking that perhaps the registry, and maybe Sonar settings, are cached.  Whaddya know, all shared content is still being pulled from the D: drive!  Anybody have any ideas for how to cure this before I bother the {probably} inundated support people?  Thanks!

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Re: Command Center Mess! 2015/03/03 16:42:03 (permalink)
I think you have to change the settings for file locations from within Sonar...
 
Also, while I think Command Center could stand a lot of improvements, its impossible for them to account for you manually editing the registry.
 
The program may set those registry settings just for compliance with Windoze and still cook its own soup with some other method.
 
Command center probably has a default location for the installation, but will take your audio folder locations from the previous install.  You can't really fault it for that.
 
 
Edit: Its actually a really good idea to keep/save your audio files and projects on a separate drive from the one Windoze resides on.

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Re: Command Center Mess! 2015/03/03 17:43:14 (permalink)
Thanks for the reply!  I didn't actually edit the registry until Command Center was finished with the installation, so the Command Center had already done its thing.  It also kept my Cakewalk Content folder in the old location on the D: drive, but I was able to move that folder and update the paths from within Platinum, so no problem there.  It's just those dang Shared Plugins, Shared Midi Plugins, Shared Utilities, Shared Surfaces, Shared Utilities and Shared DXi folders that I can't seem to get moved from D:\Program Files\Cakewalk to C:\Program Files\Cakewalk.  In the Plugin Manager/Options button, there is a path for the Shared Utilities\Internal folder which I changed from D: to C:, but that didn't seem to have any effect, either.  Perhaps you are right about the program using some other method to account for where the Shared folders go, as I have not been able to change it so far.

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Re: Command Center Mess! 2015/03/03 19:03:08 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby leapinlizard 2015/03/03 20:03:58
All DX stuff is registered by itself - each one of them - to their location.
 
So there would be an uninstall and reinstall with regsrv32 I think it's called - on each plugin as I recall.
You run that from the location where they are - and there is less to write.
I don't have a 64-bit machine running now, so I can check details.
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Re: Command Center Mess! 2015/03/03 19:59:43 (permalink)
Thanks, lfm - you are correct - all the DX stuff, and everything in the 'Shared xxx' folders is registered under a GUID in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CSLID in the registry.  I did it the hard way (before I saw your post) and used regedit to go through and change all the occurrences of 'D:' to 'C:' for everything in the Shared folders, and that fixed it.  Took me a while, but I got-r-done, and now everything is being called up from the C: drive and not D:.  Being an ex-programmer, I should have thought of regsvr32 - that probably would have been much easier.

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