Updating New Releases (very time consuming)

Simply select which parts in command centre that you want to update and leave the rest to another time.  There's no requirement to update at all.

Most of the items showing update required are due to the new Command Center. Discussion starts here http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3247552

So I am guess this is one time because of new Command Center...
 
anyone reading this don't bother going through the thread scook posted unless you have some time, I think what he wanted me to see was this from Cakewalk.
 
A few of them have been updated to support the forthcoming Command Center update. As you may know, Command Center 1.0 loses track of what's installed if you log out, clear your cache, etc. Everything has been updated to improve that experience when the Command Center update launches. So, in many cases, the content installed hasn't changed. But you'll have to install them to get your lights showing green again.
 
The important ones to install, with actual new stuff are:
 
SONAR Core
Drum Replacer
Platinum Instrument Collection
Anderton Collection
Local Help

Glad to see I am not alone on this one. I thought Command Centre was the 1 stop shop for updates - I bought 2 Pro Channel strips this month - they did not appear in Command Centre - had to go to Cakewalk.com to download.
 
In the recent survey I did comment on the "slowness" of Command centre - and the inability to perform a update all - today I have the tedious task(monthly) of spending a few hours updating - although I look forward to the updates the application of them is tedious.
 
I am hoping that the good folks at CW are looking at more efficiencies in their download tool.

Anderton
This does seem like an unusually big update, due to the need to prep everything for compatibility with the new CCC coming in July. If it wasn't for that, the update would take maybe 10 minutes with broadband.
 
One of the main variables is the size of loop libraries. The EDM Percussion Loop Library is around 100 MB. I have to be careful not to do any 1 GB libraries  

OK I think I understand...
But this is taking way too long. Also Command Center is not notifying me when complete as it says it will when I minimize. It does not pop up like I would expect. 
This will take a few sessions but I am done for now 12 items completed in 2.5 hrs. 

Meno
 
Thanks you for the response Craig. Its too bad the Command Center has to reload every time you download something, it would give me back a minute or so. I like getting it all done and forgetting about it...but if this gets fixed in July "GREAT" :)

I don't know if it will or not. I usually attend to other things during updates, like answering questions about updates , having a snack, coiling cables...I guess I lump CCC updates in with other maintenance.

charlyg
It's not just the re-search, it's the idea that I need to click to continue, wait for the search, click to update, wait for the download, rinse, repeat.....

Yes, you'd think CCC could assume that nothing new became available between when it did its first scan and subsequent updates. 

wow, Foxboro took me 6-7 min..tops. Was finished before I realized. Just clicked the yellow Sonar and CCC did everything at once . Less than 7 min I'm sure

mudgel
"I go to my account and download all the files suggested by CCC. That way I can have 12 different downloads happening at a time. By the time the last one has downloaded I'm already uodating them using CCC."
 
Mudgel,
 
Do you do that in command center or some other way?   I can only do one at a time in CCC and I share the frustration of the original poster and everyone else.  Hoping the "Update all" buttons comes back

joyof60
wow, Foxboro took me 6-7 min..tops. Was finished before I realized. Just clicked the yellow Sonar and CCC did everything at once . Less than 7 min I'm sure

Yes but did you click on the sonar Platinum icon to reveal everything underneath it that needs updating?
 
I'm on 152Mb download speed and to do the lot last night took me 80 minutes, so with the greatest respect, I think you're missing something.

jih64
Go to your account at the Cakewalk site, https://www.cakewalk.com/My-Account , then under 'Products'  you can download them manually from there. Then you just place them in the folder that CCC expects them to be in, the default is C:\Program Data\Cakewalk\Command Center\Downloads, then you just select install through CCC and it will use those files instead of downloading them again through CCC

 
Thanks Jeff.  Before I saw your post I figured part of Mudgel's solution out and I did the download straight from the website as you suggest, but did not save or install from the folder you suggested.  So, even after manually installing all the updated files, CCC still tells me they need to be updated.
 
Oh well, I'll mess with it tomorrow.
 
Aloha,
Bill

mudgel

"I go to my account and download all the files suggested by CCC. That way I can have 12 different downloads happening at a time. By the time the last one has downloaded I'm already uodating them using CCC."
 

BRainbow
 
Do you do that in command center or some other way?   I can only do one at a time in CCC and I share the frustration of the original poster and everyone else.  Hoping the "Update all" buttons comes back

I go to my Cakewalk account to do the downloading. That way I'm not constrained by one download install cycle per item. I keep CCC open so I can see which files need to be downloaded.
Once they are all downloaded I place them into the Command Centre Download folder, then when you initiate an installation the file is already there. At this stage there is no way to avoid the cycle the CCC takes to check for updates after every installation but by the time I've downloaded the biggest file I've usually finished the whole installation. On this occasion I downloaded and installed every file. That way when the CCC comes out this month I'll be ready to go.

Anderton
I have to be careful not to do any 1 GB libraries  

Craig, I'll take all the 1GB updates you want to produce!! No Matter how long they take!! 

Is there a reason that there's no "update all" button?  It's great that you can only update the ones you want to update if you choose to do so, but frankly I have never yet wished to leave one not updated.
 
This is extremely tedious, and the real problem is that I have been having a helluva time motivating myself for songwriting lately, anyway.  This is like sitting here hitting myself in the head with a hammer.
 
This is my 2nd go-round, and I'm still not making not progress.