Bristol_Jonesey


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.

Actually here's the reason:  I have a laptop that I use only for live sound and recording.  After recording, Sonar projects are transferred off to my desktop DAW for editing/mixing.  (I.e., there are no 'old' Sonar projects ever on this machine.) Laptop currently has 8.5 and X1 installed.  It also has an SSD of limited size.  Was thinking about installing and using X2 for recording, and maybe removing at least 8.5 from the laptop to save SSD space.


None of this is critical, was just wondering how easy it would be.  Because my current setup is very stable, I hesitate to change it.  One of these days when I'm feeling brave, I'll remove 8.5 and X1, and just do a clean install of X2 on the laptop.


Thanks for the input everyone..... I'll try to remember Google next time.

If you are going to install X2 after uninstalling 8.5, you should not have any trouble at all. Both X1 and X2 should run fine. FYI, each version of SONAR adds between 100 and 200 MB of stuff that is unique to that version of SONAR (executables and config, not including the plugins and samples).

scook


How to change file associations http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Change-which-programs-Windows-uses-by-default

I saw that when I went to try. The only problem is that Sonar is not an option and it does not appear I can get to it. It only gives me a few choices, none of which are any help.
 
I appreciate the effort. Maybe I'm still missing something.

Once you get to the "Open With" dialog, hit the browse button, then select the program you want to associate with the extension.

That did not help. All it does not is open midi files with Sonar 8. And I pointed it to the X2 producer program.

I think I found it. It's a registry edit.

Ultimately that is where the associations are stored.

No go. I remember I did this before. I went in and deleted the file ascociations before. I uninstalled the previous version of Sonar and no matter what I did, Windows always wanted the first version of Sonar ever installed on the machine.

So, another hour of wasted time. ;-(