I installed Sonar x1 (Build 184) today, registered, played with it, and later went to the updates page. Tried to install Update x1a and received the notice: "Cannot locate the required version of the program on this system...."

I Googled the sentence and only found two threads pertaining to the situation. Tried all of their suggestions to no avail. I tried installing X1a, X1b, and X1c and all get the same notice.

Sonar X1 is installed on my D: drive and runs fairly well (with one crash so far). I tried installing the updates from the D; drive as well as the C: drive but always the same thing.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

-Jeff-

PS I still have Sonar Home Studio 6 installed as well.

Windows 7 x64 / 8G RAM / AMD 6-core / M-Audio Fast Track USB / Sonar X1

x1c is a cumulative update..you dont need either x1a or x1b

Yes, Thanks, I tried that as well and receive the same message.

Frustrating.

So, you have it installed on your D: drive? 
 
Not a good idea.  And obviously, that's the problem.  
 
Why there and not the C: drive?
 

JonD


So, you have it installed on your D: drive? 
 
Not a good idea.  And obviously, that's the problem.  
 
Why there and not the C: drive?
 

i read to quick and focussed on the x1a part..lol
 
.. so a +1 here...  i would rephrase and say "i dont care why you have sonar on the D drive".. dont. put it on C drive... you are asking for trouble if you do not simply allow programs to use the default path...

I put most of my programs on the D: drive because my C: drive is an SSD and it only has about 40G left on it out of 100G.

Everything else has run well on it (the D: drive) but if you think that's the problem, I'll certainly give reinstalling on the C: drive a try.

Thanks.

-Jeff-

Make sure you COMPLETELY remove X1 before reinstalling it on your C drive.

Also, make sure you read the install instructions and make damned sure you've got your plugins & sample data loading to the correct drive.

Also, read this on removal of X1:

http://forum.cakewalk.com...mpage=1&print=true

 Thank you all. I do appreciate it. I'll give it a shot

-Jeff-

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I put most of my programs on the D: drive because my C: drive is an SSD and it only has about 40G left on it out of 100G.

Everything else has run well on it (the D: drive) but if you think that's the problem, I'll certainly give reinstalling on the C: drive a try.

Thanks.

-Jeff-

Hi Jeff,
Just my 2 cents.....
 
Since you have an SSD drive (C: Drive) and none of the synths in Sonar have any streaming samples, why not keep all your software programs/VST's on the SSD drive and your projects/samples on the D: Drive?
 
Ideally, you'd benefit from having a 3rd drive for sample content. 
Something like:
 
C: all you software programs
D: Sonar projects
E: sample libraries
 

That's the recommended solution Mesh, without a doubt.