I hereby will my post count to Beagle to give Bapu another target to shoot for.
 
I'm off to try and re-install everything on my PC from scratch (adding a new SSD drive, then some virtual machines).  I just finished archiving data for three days so here I go!  I see the cliff and I'm running off it hoping I can fly...   

Shane..... come back Shane
 
errrm craigb (ITHRN) I mean.....

R.I.P craigb (ITHRN).  I'm so sad to see you go.  I didn't even know you were sick--on second thought, I did know you were sick, but that's unrelated.  

hey craig -I feel your pain-tasks like that are way beyond me which is why I settled for the "Turnkey" option-Stealth Audio does all that for me with a 24hr turnaround,dependant on couriers only-suffice to say that in the last 3 years I have had absolutely no glitches,dropouts or any problems whatsoever and haven`t had to use the service.
ps:just an observation,but,to me,Sonar and the like encourage you to be a jack of all trades and occasionally require you to be a tech head as well.
it`s a bit like being the mechanic and the race driver as well and the only successful analogy that comes to my mind is Sir Jack Brabbham in the 50`s and he,apparently,was not that fond of driving.   
   

Well, I'd say it's been "a few hours" and he certainly has not been back yet. So... shouldn't someone be contacting the next-of-beagle or something?

soens
Well, I'd say it's been "a few hours" and he certainly has not been back yet. So... shouldn't someone be contacting the next-of-beagle or something?

 
The F. B(eagle). I.?  

Do not get emotionally involved with your DAW.
they do not use the same reason as us.(unless they frequently upgrade)
I hear S1 is way more sympathetic.
 
you have been warned.

I see no Reason for the grim Reaper to take my SONAR to Mr. Harrison's Studio Juan to Cue (da) Base and declare it a Pro Tool, using Froot Loops Logic.

ha-never try to outpun a pro!
I would award points if I could.
better still I have a midi cable still in original packaging that I couldn`t work out where to plug in-I could award you that.
cheers

Yea, though I be in limbo, my spirit has taken over the aging body of my old boot disk and reanimated it long enough to get a post fix in.  I can't stand fixing computers, I just want to use them!  I'm getting closer to being able to use the new disk and OS.  Still some bugs to step on and then I get to start creating virtual machines.
 
For years (nay, decades!), I've always dragged 99% of the crap I had on an older PC or OS drive onto the new one (which is why I created a 10 GB mail file today from a bunch of smaller ones and archived it).  THIS TIME I'm going to try starting slim and see how things work.  We'll see...  It sounds liberating, I just hope I can still find that one thing in the future that I'm going to need but it's no longer on the PC!