I'm not sure how to remedy this. I've searched the forum, however no suggestions posted have worked for me.
 
I have a folder on my C drive named  C:\Program Data\Cakewalk\Dimension Pro\
 
I also have a folder on my F drive named F:\Dimension Pro\
 
 
 
Before I installed X2 (Along with the included Dimension Pro)  - all of my Dimension data and programs resided on the F drive.
 
Now I have this new path associaed with Dimension Pro on my C drive. My registry has changed to use this C drive path.  Well guess what?  None of my old expansion packs that I installed from day 1 (like proteus) are included in the new C drive path. 
 
So I've lost all of my old patches - when I change my path to the (original) F drive.
 
I changed the registry path back to my C path and whallaaa - only the new ( just installed) patches are listed in Dimension.
 
 
 
 
There is also a file in C:\Program Data\Cakewalk\Dimension Pro\ Programs\  called "programs".  That seems to be the file that dimension is using to populate its patch menu.  I can edit this file with notepad or whatever, but whenever I save it - Dimensions patch list is blank. 
 
I want to use my free X2 Symphonic Strings appliction along with my old packages (like Proteus) that I purchased from Cakewalk , but Dimensions won't allow me to.  
 
Why can't dimension be like all of the other modern day programs where you can just point an option to the data folder.  Why do we have to edit registrys and programs to get Dimension  to work right?
 
Anyone?  

if there's one thing i've learned over the years it's to rarely (never) change default file paths. the easy solution is to move all your program files from the f drive to the c:\program data path that you mentioned.

oh - and programs.lst is updated every time you run dp from the data that's in the program data directory - it does not feed dimension pro in any way.

the easy solution is to move all your program files from the f drive to the c:\program data path that you mentioned.

Data should be able to be where the user wants it to be.


I have no solution gt but maybe this bump will give you some feedback.
I've been trying to figure out my whole dimpro mess also.

yeah the problem with moving default file locations isn't so much that it shouldn't be where the user wants it's more about programmer turnover. eventually lead programmers will leave companies and projects, taking all of their institutional knowledge.  typically there are sections of code which are not substantially documented which leads to problems. there is also the effect of hiring new programmers who aren't trained and accustomed to the kinds of needs users have.  hence, they miss things like user-edited data paths (that one is big and repetitive with every sw mfr i've seen).  i had the displeasure once of having to re-document, annotate and re-train programmers on the functionality of a 30+ million line code base. roughly 40% of it was being used because the documentation was so bad and the current programmers were writing functions and objects that already existed but they didn't know about so... well, you get the picture.  programmers aren't perfect and i just know from experience that if i expect them to be it's just going to cause me headaches in the end...

Thanks everyone,
 
 
I did find out ( not that it helped me much) that when I delete the "program" file in the  C:\Program Data\Cakewalk\Dimension Pro\ directory, it forces Dimension to re-build it's patch list with whatever is in the
C:\Program Data\Cakewalk\Dimension Pro\
directory at that time.
 
 
 

Does any one know how to get DimPro to install data to whatever drive one chooses?

All I can say is that I'm soooooo glad the strings were free.  I could never buy another Dimension product.  Dimension is just not user friendly. 

FWIW, the proteus and strings HD packages are not CW products, they are DSF products. You can contact them directly and they will be glad to help you. Representatives from DSF periodically post on the Instruments forum below for example http://forum.cakewalk.com/fb.ashx?m=2663494

  GT: So if you could put all your programs in the C:etc directory, then delete the "Program" file, would DimPro put all the patches in its list?

Do you recall having to extract files, or have to do that more than once?

you could always click on the little file icon in dimension pro as well and navigate to where you're programs are located.