"Dorchester" Doesn't Listen To My Custom Folder Settings

I set all my custom Sonar folders in preferences to the following:
 
E:\DAW\Sonar Platinum\xxx
 
(where xxx = project templates, track templates, drum maps, etc...)  basically anything that can be set in the folder preferences.
 
So what does the Dorchester update do?   Installs everything to:
 
E:\DAW\Sonar Platinum\Sonar Platinum\xxx
 
Why is it adding another "Sonar Platinum" folder?

And underneath that, it makes all the same folders I already have one level up!
 
Ever since the Command Center, it seems like we lose more control of where things are placed and it doesn't care where you have your things, it's gonna put updates, well - wherever.
 

Anderton

alewgro
Why is it adding another "Sonar Platinum" folder?

In the CCC system dialog box, where did you specify installing the downloaded files?




I have a seperate area for the install area - nothing related with the path above.  The install folder is only where the Installers go...   this is actual stuff the installers put on my hard drive.    Its the same stuff, track templates, your FX chains, etc... i got them all already in the first Sonar Platinum folder, then they installed them again in Sonar Platinum\Sonar Platinum.  ;(

Anderton
This happens to me often with a variety of programs. I suspect what's happening is that the program wants to install a SONAR Platinum folder under whichever folder you specify for the install, so it installs SONAR Platinum under SONAR Platinum. It's probably not smart enough to move up the tree and parse folder names to see if it's a duplicate, and even if it could, might not do that on the theory that you might want to install a "Folder A" under a "Folder A."

Probably needs fixing then, because - really what is the difference if its in C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Sonar Platinum or my E:\Sonar Platinum?

I should put this post in the Bug forum I guess.

I think you could choose just E;\, and it should install there under E:\ Sonar Platinum. I have all my Cakewalk content and Samples on a separate drive, and all the updates have been installed where they were supposed to.

How about a junction from the location on C to E?
 

when you download dorchester, it doesnt ask you where to install - it just INSTALLS!  And it installed into E:\Sonar Platinum\Sonar Platinum

Anderton

alewgro
when you download dorchester, it doesnt ask you where to install - it just INSTALLS!  And it installed into E:\Sonar Platinum\Sonar Platinum

 
I may have misinterpreted what you said. Are you talking about the location where a release downloads its files, or where the SONAR excecutable program itself is installed?

Oh thats ok.. actually NEITHER.  my EXE is still in my C:\Program Files\Sonar.  I am just talking the Cakewalk Content folder.
 
So for instance, I manually moved the track templates, track icons, Anderton FX Chains, etc...   to E:\Sonar Platinum, then Dorchester installed them again at E:\Sonar Platinum\Sonar Platinum.
 
It's OK, i fixed it by merging the folders, but I assume every update will do this, which is quite annoying.

No, either way works. My machine is setup with a combination of registry edits and directory junctions as a result of testing. The point for this thread is how the Cakewalk installers place "Cakewalk Content" in product specific folders.

Makes sense to me. ContentDir is not SONAR version or even SONAR specific. When a Cakewalk installer reads ContentDir it appends the product being installed to the path. For example, if Contentdir = "E:\Sonar Platinum" here is where the following products would install their Cakewalk Content:

• X3 Producer - "E:\Sonar Platinum\SONAR X3 Producer"
• SONAR Platinum - "E:\Sonar Platinum\SONAR Platinum"
• Rapture Pro - "E:\Sonar Platinum\Rapture Pro"

Because the installer does not read SONAR preferences, never has. Preferences have nothing to do with ContentDir other than it serves as part of the default paths. Cakewalk installers look at ContentDir and you have specified a product path where there should be a generic Cakewalk Content path. Should you purchase and install Rapture Pro, the content for Rapture Pro, based on your ContentDir will install in "E:\Sonar Platinum\Rapture Pro" an odd location for something which has nothing to do with SONAR Platinum.

rabeach
Doesn't the op just need to specify his ContentDir to E:\ and all will be well?

That is what I have done, and it works without any problems