CakeAlexS
I suggest you run a full chkdsk scan on all your hard drive partitions.

 

ido1957
Why would a chkdsk help me find a missing file?

Why not run it and find out if this could be an issue?
If your hard drive indexes are screwed you might end up losing other files as well. I hope you are backing up.
Ta

CakeAlexS

CakeAlexS
I suggest you run a full chkdsk scan on all your hard drive partitions.

 

ido1957
Why would a chkdsk help me find a missing file?

Why not run it and find out if this could be an issue?
If your hard drive indexes are screwed you might end up losing other files as well. I hope you are backing up.
Ta

I just ran it and no issues with files or sectors. File is still missing.

I had this happen recently with a "Disk May Be Full" error message.  I had been working for a while and saving regularly.  The audio engine stopped and I wasn't able to save or play although the program didn't freeze and it don't close.  After a while, (and some more messing with it), it gave me the ...Sonar must close" message and my saved .cwp file was gone.  The auto save file was also corrupt so all that work was gone.
 
I do feel your pain.
 
Paul

Ok that's similar to my problem - so where might I find that elusive backup file?

ido1957
Ok that's similar to my problem - so where might I find that elusive backup file?

If you're asking me, I'm afraid I don't know of such a file.  'Auto Save' is where I'd look.  In my case, that too was unusable.
 
Paul

ido1957
To summarize:
This was an existing project that I opened that day to do some work on
I saved the project several times during the session - I always do saves between takes/after edits etc.
The last time I clicked Save, I received the General Error pop up - over and over.
I could not save the project and closed Sonar, assuming my last save (which  would have included everything anyway because I save a lot) would just reopen and have everything.

 
Do you also "save as" periodically or do you always overwrite a version? With any program, not just Sonar, I highly recommend an occasional "save as."
 

I opened Sonar and when I clicked on the project in OPEN, it said it did not exist.

 
I think if Sonar exits abnormally, the project you were working on won't show up as a recent file.
 

I searched the entire hard drive and found no trace of the cwp file.

 
I don't know what the deal is with search, but if I search on .cwp or even *.cwp nothing shows up, even though I have plenty of projects on this machine. Maybe I don't have some "search on suffixes too" box checked somewhere in Windows.
 

The Audio folder still existed but of course, no easy way to use the files without the project file settings.
I opened a bundle file from the previous week and redid all the changes I could remember in a new project.
Has anyone ever lost a cwp file like this and figured out where to fid it?

It should be in the per-project folder, along with any auto-saves (which will be identified with auto-save in the file name).

Auto Save is not turned on so there is no Auto Save file.
Save as would not have saved this file as it was completely deleted - if you are suggesting a different project name then it will create a whole other headache with duplication of audio files.
Yes Windows will not always find what you search for - indexing helps.
The project name didn't show up in the Open Dialog box, but it did appear in the File / Open list
 

Do you have a virus scanner? Check the quarantine area. Otherwise I don't hold up much hope, it's an extremely odd scenario. Ta.

"Save as" does not require saving into a different folder. The existing project folder can contain multiple versions of the same project using different names created with the "Save As" function. In addition to AutoSave, Versioning will also create a round robin of versions of a project in the project folder.

With respect the quarantine area sounds unlikely.