Sonar Professional issues

Hi,
 
I updated to Sonar Professional and have been using it for a couple weeks now. Few issues have risen during that time. First I started to notice that some of the effect plugins would reset to their default settings when loading a project. It's not a show stopper since I can just save the plugin settings individually and then load them after the project has opened. It's time consuming though...
 
The second issue is a bigger one. Earlier today I was working on a project, then saved it and closed the program to do other stuff. Just now when I loaded the project again, all the MIDI notes and track automations were gone. Every one of them. And yes, the Show Notes is on. Hours of work lost.
 
I think getting the notes and automations back for the project won't happen. What might be the cause of these issues and is there a fix or do I have to go back to Sonar 8.5?

I have been working on the project for days now. Editing, saving, closing, opening it and so on. No problems except that some of the effect plugins settings reset to default on opening. What I mean by showing notes is when you open the Piano Roll view on a MIDI track and then draw notes there. Like so:
 
So earlier today I saved the project and then closed the program. Then later when I opened the project again, all of the notes were gone. Moreover I had added several automation lanes for various synths. Those lanes were also gone. It's like somekind of reset happened except all the synths and plugins that were added to the project were still there.
 
Edit: I had also added several .wav files to the project. Those are not present either anymore.

I've only ever opened one project at the time and I have the permission to save where I save the files (not external USB drive). I used only one save file so my bad there. I think the issue might be somehow related to the plugins reseting back to the default settings. Only this time almost the whole project reset.
 
Anyway, thanks for the help. I'm back to using the 8.5 since can't be sure that the data loss won't happen again with the new Sonar.

Things I discovered, having many projects originally made in Sonar 4 Studio, and also Sonar 8.5 - are that X-series and visibility of tracks get's screwed up. Open track manager and see what is there and check everything to be visible.
 
Timestamp on project you have on disk, should tell if any update was made.

So it's not just the clear Picture Cache folder, to let those rebuild.
That could be one reason you don't see anything on tracks.
 
It can be a mess with those and different versions of Sonar pointing in different places on disk.
I would definately have new Sonar have it's own project folder - then it builds piccache there.
I think this is it, then....

If you do Ctrl A that marks everything as selected - then shift K and recalculate picture files.
 
Also just changing your base folder for projects in settings, starts a new picture file folder under that - used for all newly built picture files - this even if you open a project in your old project folder, Sonar looks if present in new Picture Files folder, if not there builds it.
 
This will not change in next Sonar version.

Use the Project -> Audio Files dialog to find what the project contains.
 
Is that empty - no files listed?
Do file path to files look alright?
 
The Audio Finder tool might also help CWAF on Utilities menu.
Local help refers to use online help for how that works - don't know why.
 
Save as bundle files also include audio files - also recommended if changing the global audio folder to get audio files where they are supposed to. So unless using per project audio files, you audio will be in global audio folder.
 
Help recommend having changed global audio folder, which might happend between Sonar versions - save as bundle with one version of Sonar, open this bundle with new version of Sonar - and all files will be placed where they can be found.
 

Is it possible that Sonar Professional is in demo mode?

It's not running in demo mode, at least not that I can tell. This is not just about the missing audio files. Gone are also all the automation lanes I had added and the MIDI notes that are drawn to a MIDI track in the Piano Roll view.

If demo is the case, and it really sounds that way - a good idea might be to warn at exit "your work is now lost" or something. Nobody should have to experience what Sonadi did.
 
I think gokidsmusic and stevec nailed it...

The About window says Sonar is owned and displays the serial. That would indicate that the demo mode isn't on.