Would someone please verify this anomaly

I must be the only one with this problem.

I saw your handle and was gonna test it for you (you seem like a cool, wacky dude) but I don't actually have a version of Sonar with the new Start menu installed yet... and I'll probably disable it as soon as I do because of the "phone home" crap.
 
"Also note that I use the old method as it produces a project folder whereas the new start up menu does not."
 
 
The above statement is a little concerning. So the Start Menu is forcing new projects into the Global folder? That should be reported or maybe check the release notes/eZine for Kingston to see if they fixed it. I would expect more reports though if the Start Screen was overiding PPF settings.
 
hmm...
 
/sorry... I know that's not helpful

Gotta disagree, John. The Start Screen reaches out to the internet to snag "news" and "tips" and whatnot. That's kind of the definition of "phoning home".
 
Fortunately it can be disabled by turning off the start screen but I would prefer to be able to turn it off WITHOUT turning off the start screen.
 
As far as not hopping on updates immediately? Well that's a pretty easy one to figure out. Sometimes things get broken and can affect work in progress. For those with CCC installed not such a huge deal I guess BUT I (and others) don't use CCC specifically because that is a TOTAL "phone home" scheme... and itself has some silly stuff going on.
 
Not trying to give you hard time (obviously) but those are good reasons based on how it all works (particularly for us offliners).
 
These aspects of the new model are indeed things I do not like... at all. But at least they can kind of be avoided without losing crucial functionality.
 
Many other companies do not even provide that so although I don't like it I'll commend Cake for at least giving us an "opt out"... even if it is a bit of a futz around.
 
Cheers.

Beeps,
 
Virtual machine for suving the toobz and main DAW for offline work.
 
Yes, may not solve the Start Screen Dilemma but *may* allow you to use the VM for running CCC (somewhat safely) and if that VM gets corrupted in any way, blow it away and restore it. They say that way the "DAW install" is never corrupted.
 
I'm an onliner so I cannae say if it's true. But since you can declare where CCC does it's installs from it seems like that "isolates" the VM form the true OS install.

Hi Mario,
 
I'm looking into the issue and may have found a repro case. Do any of your projects have an apostrophe in them (i.e. Mario's project.cwp)? And if so, is that project pinned?
 
Thanks
Daniel [Cakewalk]

Hi Mario,
 
Could you send me the name of the file you have pinned? I want to make sure there's not a secondary issue here. 
 
Also, in the meantime, if you un-pin the project the screen should stop showing up blank at restarts.
 
 

Dan Cate [Cakewalk]
Hi Mario,
 
Could you send me the name of the file you have pinned? I want to make sure there's not a secondary issue here. 
 
Also, in the meantime, if you un-pin the project the screen should stop showing up blank at restarts.
 
 

The files that are pinned are Paradise Beach.cwp, Midnight Snow.cwp and aaaa.cwp with the later being my let's try/test this projects.  The unpinned file is My Baby's Walking.cwp.

Note that the start menu only starts showing up blank after I start a new project by bypassing the new start menu and using the file/new method, i.e. the old way of doing this.  After clearing the cache all is well until I start a new project using the old file/new method.

I hope this helps.