scook
Project files open based on the registry entry
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CakewalkProjectFile\shell\open\command

Thanks for the help. Went to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT but tgere was no CakewalkProjectFile to be found. Or maybe I was supposed to create that? Apologies if so. I am not a geek. Would need detailed instructions if this were the case.
 
Does this mean I should re-install Sonar X3?

kwhetzel
Just run the X3 installer again and it should return to being the default.  Just unclick all of the options except for the program itself so as not to potentially mess up any current settings.
 
The same thing happened to me where X1 was the default after I'd reinstalled it.

Ok, it's come to this. I did recently re-install X1 to get V-vocal back, so I guess that is the problem. Thank you for your insight.

jm24
For me it has always been the latest installation is default.

That seems logical.

michael japan

Grem

slartabartfast
Are you using Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Default Programs\Set Associations?

This.
 
If this doesn't work, try Alex's suggestion.

Thank you. Went there. But under default programs there is no Sonar to be found. Am I missing something? Under default programs, the only option in the pull down menu is set default programs and there is no cakewalk or sonar.

I am not quite clear now about what you are trying to do. 
If it is to have your current version of Sonar automatically look in the right place to find your projects etc., then the registry hack or the file folder locations dialogue is the place to start:
http://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR%20X3&language=3&help=Dialogs2.062.html
 
If you want to open your cwp file in your latest version of Sonar, then you have missed something. You need to go to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Default Programs\Set Associations find the cwp extension in the list click/highlight it, click the "change program" button in the upper right to open the "choose the program..." window, click the "browse" button in the lower right of that window and then navigate to the Sonar(whatever version).exe file where it is installed on your hard drive. Click/highlight the Sonar executable file then click the "open" button in the lower right to open the "open with" dialogue window, highlight the Sonar file if it is not already selected and then click OK. If you do not see any file extensions (.exe etc.) it is because Windows is hiding this useful knowledge from you to "protect" you from yourself. Switch to details view and select the appropriately named file of the type "application."
 

michael japan
I did recently re-install X1 to get V-vocal back, so I guess that is the problem. Thank you for your insight.

As I predicted, please check my last post here:
http://forum.cakewalk.com/m/tm.aspx?m=3080586

BTW CJ was right. You might want to acknowledge this on that thread as you gave him some stick for what appeared pretty sensible advice.

I will run the X3 installer again, after which I will run X3e.
 
I went through all of the registry place where SONARPDR.exe appeared, and did not find anything there that looked like it would point X2 to open midi files, but that's what happens on my machine, so there must be some other mechanism in place - OR I missed it.  I of course found lots of mentions of X2 and X3 in the registry, but nothing that looked like a place to tweak successfully, so, as noted above, I will just run the X3 and X3a program installers only, to set midi files to open with X3e.
 
Any how - as I am typing this, my brain keeps shutting down, so first will come a long nap.
 
Bob Bone
 

If you are unable to change the file extension association with the procedure at:
Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Default Programs\Set Associations
 
It may be that the association was set by/for another user than the one you are logged in as now or that there is a problem with the registry key for the association
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/fix-unable-change-default-program-extension-windows-7
 
Or since the OP apparently experienced the problem after a re-install of a previous version, that the more recent sonar version itself is not properly registered.

In regedit: Navigate to Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications and find your .exe name. 
Navigate under its name to shell>open>command. In the Default change its location to the actual location of the executable, hit okay and then try and re-associate the file type as you normally would.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/problems-with-file-association-in-windows-7-64-bit/8a84fcec-22df-4942-8e35-d98dbe96e327
 
 
 

CakeAlexS

michael japan
I did recently re-install X1 to get V-vocal back, so I guess that is the problem. Thank you for your insight.

As I predicted, please check my last post here:
http://forum.cakewalk.com/m/tm.aspx?m=3080586

BTW CJ was right. You might want to acknowledge this on that thread as you gave him some stick for what appeared pretty sensible advice.

Hi CakeAlexS. Thank you for your post. Concerning CJ, 1st of all, these are 2 separate problems. Re-installing X3 would not have brought V-vocal back. That was the problem in the other thread I was looking to solve. 2nd of all, if you read that post again you will see accusations of RTFM. Giving the wrong advice, coupled with telling me that if I would read the manual like I should have all would be ok, with the addition of "its not always what you say, but how you say it", I would say I was quite ok in my response. That's my take on it.

I had this same issue recently. When you navigate to a program and select it but it fails to show up in the list as a default option there is definitely something wrong with the way Windows is handling it. A person should NOT have to go into the registry to fix it. But that is often the case.
 
Steve

michael japan

CakeAlexS

michael japan
I did recently re-install X1 to get V-vocal back, so I guess that is the problem. Thank you for your insight.

As I predicted, please check my last post here:
http://forum.cakewalk.com/m/tm.aspx?m=3080586

BTW CJ was right. You might want to acknowledge this on that thread as you gave him some stick for what appeared pretty sensible advice.

Hi CakeAlexS. Thank you for your post. Concerning CJ, 1st of all, these are 2 separate problems. Re-installing X3 would not have brought V-vocal back. That was the problem in the other thread I was looking to solve. 2nd of all, if you read that post again you will see accusations of RTFM. Giving the wrong advice, coupled with telling me that if I would read the manual like I should have all would be ok, with the addition of "its not always what you say, but how you say it", I would say I was quite ok in my response. That's my take on it.

Sorry but he was quite correct. You shouldn't have reinstalled X1 to get vvocal back, and as a result you are in the current situation. I don't see any problems refering to readme files either, that's actually a pretty sensible thing to do when installing software.

Ironically it may be a good idea to reinstall X3 now you've installed X1 (that is debatable though).

Anyway the full detail as I pointed out to you was in my last post on that thread so I won't go into any more specifics here.