To all - I did receive an attached template from willoby, and had no trouble seeing it and opening it in X2, so I really do not have a clue as to what has happened to his installation.

My recommendation was to have him back up all custom content and remove and install Sonar again.

Bob Bone

Props to Robert who did all he could to help. It's now in the hands of Cakewalk Tech Support before I do a complete reinstall.....

I'd do it anyway, it only takes a couple of hours.

How long to get a response from Tech?

If you do decide to re-install, check back here first so we can guide you through the correct, foolproof procedure.

One thing you could try, and my apologies if this has already been suggested, but locate your aud.ini file and delete it.

Sonar will build new one the next time you boot up.

I'll try that right now

................and it made no difference

So I went to Cakewalk support who suggested much of what we've done on here, culminating in a full re-install. That didn't fix it either. Mystified.

Is it possible your system does not have an association for the file extension CWT as a Cakewalk Template?

I don't understand at all what is happening on your system.

I don't understand why this is happening.  Did you run the Sonar installation specifically as Administrator?  (not with an administrative account, but actually choosing the option Run As Administrator).

Bob Bone

Please try this:

1.  Navigate to your Project Templates folder.
2.  Double-click on one of the templates.  This SHOULD open Sonar and have it open that template.

Please do the above and post the results.

Bob Bone

Installed as an administrator (certain of this) and saved as .cwt (this I have checked over and over)

Just did that - double clicking led to the file opening in Sonar as it ought to

I've looked at file permissions and they all seem to be in order

It's mystifying