Assume this is an easy question; couldn't find the answer with forum search

I want to remove 8.5 from my computer, but keep existing X2 (and X1) installs.  Will this mess up the X1/X2 programs if I just run the uninstall for 8.5??

Thanks

It depends how you work.

I have to leave all my previous installs in as I start projects with midi files. You can import them but that's too much work. I right click on my midi files and use the "Open with" command and select Sonar. It always goes to the first version you installed on your current OS install. I unistalled it and I could not use that command. So I put it back.

The reason I use the "Open with" command is that importing midi files does not import all the settings a midi file contains like, tempo, key, markers and other things like that. The "open with" command does that.

Removing previous versions of SONAR can result in files being deleted from the "Shared" directories which will need to be replaced by reinstalling your most recent version of SONAR.

You would think they would write an intelligent uninstall script which took dependencies and shared files into account. 

wruess

Assume this is an easy question; couldn't find the answer with forum search

I want to remove 8.5 from my computer, but keep existing X2 (and X1) installs.  Will this mess up the X1/X2 programs if I just run the uninstall for 8.5??

The forum search facility doesn't work properly.  Use Google instead.

This question gets asked regularly and the answer is always the same: leave old versions installed.  However, you may wish to consolidate some of the folders where the resource files (e.g. drum maps, track templates, track icons, etc.) are stored for the different versions of Sonar.

The only time it makes sense to not have previous version(s) installed is on a brand new clean build, and even then, there are times when a partial install is required in order to use plugs no longer shipped with a latest version, such as the Lexicon Pantheon.

Guitarpima


It depends how you work.

I have to leave all my previous installs in as I start projects with midi files. You can import them but that's too much work. I right click on my midi files and use the "Open with" command and select Sonar. It always goes to the first version you installed on your current OS install. I unistalled it and I could not use that command. So I put it back.

The reason I use the "Open with" command is that importing midi files does not import all the settings a midi file contains like, tempo, key, markers and other things like that. The "open with" command does that.

In control Panel select Default Programs, navigate to the .exe file for the SONAR version you want to have open .mid files and presto it will use your current version.

mudgel

Guitarpima


It depends how you work.

I have to leave all my previous installs in as I start projects with midi files. You can import them but that's too much work. I right click on my midi files and use the "Open with" command and select Sonar. It always goes to the first version you installed on your current OS install. I unistalled it and I could not use that command. So I put it back.

The reason I use the "Open with" command is that importing midi files does not import all the settings a midi file contains like, tempo, key, markers and other things like that. The "open with" command does that.

In control Panel select Default Programs, navigate to the .exe file for the SONAR version you want to have open .mid files and presto it will use your current version.

I don't want to open midi files with Sonar. If I want to play them, the media player is fine. How do you change the "open with" command to use the latest version? I looked at your suggestion and could not find the answer.

I removed 8.5 and X1 expanded without any problems, X2 still running great here!

How to change file associations http://windows.microsoft....indows-uses-by-default