Or is it that the almighty dollar always gets in the way (i.e. greed)? We could probably add several pages to this thread about Utopian ideals, the pitfalls of unbridled Capitalism, and the practical limitations of Communism, etc. (If that actually happens, I apologize in advance!)

Well, to be fair, I could only do it if my greedy capitalist dreams of cashing out my company for a big ol' payoff come true :-)

Well, to be fair, I could only do it if my greedy capitalist dreams of cashing out my company for a big ol' payoff come true :-)

Well, if you're willing to leave Silicon Valley, you could realize your dream for a lot less money somewhere else. If you currently own property in California, you'll be amazed what its value would get you in, say Missouri.

Or consider going outside the U.S. That's why I'm going to the Philippines. I've already built a house over there with about 60 acres, including working mango, rice and fish farms. Total investment so far, less than $50K. I'll budget another $10k for a built-from-scratch custom-designed building to house the studio.

I do have a big thing (well, ok it's a fairly small thing, but I'm not defensive about it) for petite asian women, but I couldn't stand the heat and humidity. That's why I wouldn't even want to move back to the south east. You'd have to live in this area for a while to really appreciate what it's like to have basically an 8 month long late spring. It's something I don't thing I could give up. And of course we also have a large selection of petite asian local and imported varietals here as well, so no need to searching for them.

"quadratic-residue diffusor"

I put a pair of Quadratic Residue Diffusor pickups in my guitar last week. They rock, man.

RE: "Kidnap Gang in S. Philippines Behead Captive"

Oh, did I forget to mention the excitement factor of living in a country with an annual mean income of less than $2k? Whee.

But all that stuff is going on in the southern, Muslim part of the country. They've always been ready to chop off heads -- they nailed Magellan, remember. Gave the Japanese a hard time, too.

My little island, by contrast, is a slow-paced rural area in the north where everybody is related to one another, so if you get robbed it's probably a distant cousin. No problem, the police chief is a cousin, too. He'll go to the miscreant's mother and get your wallet back.

A couple years ago some Al-Qaida types on the run from government troops came to the island, but it's kind of hard to blend in when everybody knows everybody. They got busted. But that kind of excitement is rare. Usually, the biggest news of the day while I'm there is that, well, I'm there. I do kind of stand out in a crowd there.

ORIGINAL: bitflipper
I do kind of stand out in a crowd there.

Aww... is that really so?

So, how do you find out about remote islands like this?

ORIGINAL: droddey

I would find it hard to believe that a complete uninstall and registry cleaning and then reinstall would not fix such a problem and allow you to keep using the same user account.

There are registry settings found in the "ntuser.dat" file and the "...\application data\cakewalk\..." directory which do not "reside" in the registry, per say, but are only called upon when a user logs onto the system. So....., cleaning the general system registry will not effect the corruption once it sets in the user profile.

One thing to try is to copy over the "ntuser.dat" file and "...application data\cakewalk" folder found in the new user profile into your original user profile folder (when logged on as a different user account as an admin, after a fresh restart).

You could also try logging on as a different admin account, and delete the entire original user profile for the account that is not working with SONAR. This will force the system to creat an all-new user profile for the original user. That may work!!

BTW: I experienced this issue before the 6.2.1 update.

-mr moon

ORIGINAL: bitflipper
There are over 6,000 islands in the Philippines. Only 1,000 of them are inhabited, so there are still a few available. Many are wholy owned by one family. An small island can be had for the price of a 2-bedroom condo in downtown Seattle.

Incredible. Not just a bit of Pacific paradise, but a choice sampling () of it.

I would lean the same way you did... to be a village person. It's either that, or hire your own armed forces. For me, the laid-back approach is better. I'd be much more at peace as a villager than as a dictator of a small domain.

Not being an antisocial type myself, I prefer a slightly more urban area -- "my" island is relatively large, about 12 miles long and 5 miles wide. It has one town with one paved street, one gas station, more goats than people. White sand beaches and coconut palms. And about a hundred years away from the nearest traffic jam.

Perfect. Outnumbered by goats, no less. I can scarcely imagine what a traffic jam would look like there. When you get set up, let me know if you start taking applications for a Man Friday.

There are registry settings found in the "ntuser.dat" file and the "...\application data\cakewalk\..." directory which do not "reside" in the registry, per say, but are only called upon when a user logs onto the system. So....., cleaning the general system registry will not effect the corruption once it sets in the user profile.

One thing to try is to copy over the "ntuser.dat" file and "...application data\cakewalk" folder found in the new user profile into your original user profile folder (when logged on as a different user account as an admin, after a fresh restart).

You could also try logging on as a different admin account, and delete the entire original user profile for the account that is not working with SONAR. This will force the system to creat an all-new user profile for the original user. That may work!!

BTW: I experienced this issue before the 6.2.1 update.

-mr moon

Thanks for the advice, mr moon.

I did not want to delete/recreate the original profile because of all the customization that's been done under that profile that would be difficult and time-consuming to reconstruct, e.g. extensive email filters in Outlook. SONAR is the only thing that doesn't work right under the old profile, so I'd like to fix SONAR under the old profile.

Because SONAR works fine under the new profile, I attempted to make the new profile look like the old one so I could just switch to it and be done. That included copying over all the desktop shortcuts, d&s\application data, ntuser.dat, ntuser.dat.log and ntuser.ini. Outlook was a major PITA - I got the address book over there but was stumped on how to get the email filters transferred.

I spent most of Saturday working on it, but by Sunday night it had ceased to be an interesting exercise. So I returned to my original strategy of attempting to correct whatever had gone wrong in the first place. I could have re-re-installed SONAR under the original profile and that probably would take care of the problem, but I wanted to understand what actually went wrong in the first place. It doesn't seem right that an application is only runnable under one profile.

I'll have to wait until next weekend to resume this task, as real life demands I return to my day job for the week. In the meantime, I have a workaround, which is to invoke SONAR via the RUNAS command. If I ever figure it out I'll definitely post the resolution here.

Haven't heard anything. But...

Is the moral of the story, for the time being, to not attempt to use SONAR on any User Account other than the (Administrator) one in which it was installed?

CW support did not respond to my email, so I'm making do with my workaround, which is to invoke SONAR via the RUNAS command and execute it under a different profile.

ORIGINAL: losguy

Haven't heard anything. But...

Is the moral of the story, for the time being, to not attempt to use SONAR on any User Account other than the (Administrator) one in which it was installed?

Actually I installed Sonar in a user account with administrator privilegies and it is the same account as the one I'am trying to run Sonar in.

Fortunately The workaround bitflipper described (running Sonar via the RUNAS command) is working here too but is a bit too weird and annoying.

I hope the bakers come with an elegant solution to this problem, meanwhile I'll try to find a fix on my own.

Thanks guys for your help!!

I had the same problem today when I used a migration utility (PCMover) to move my programs and settings from an old computer to a new one. :( So I used Process Monitor to see what was going on. I found that the path C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA contained a file in one of the folders that Sonar didn't like. Yes, I'm on Vista, obviously, with that path. I deleted all the folders that were in the above path (after backing them up) and - presto - Sonar created a new folder with a new file at that location and Sonar is working again.

Here's what I did to fix it...
The solution is to start the program each time with 'Run as Administrator'. (Right click on the Sonar icon to see that option).  Sure, it seems dumb to have to do that... but it opens properly so I'm happy . Don't re-install etc, it doesn't seem to be the issue.

Thanks Kalle - good of you to point it out =-)
The prob seems to have surfaced this year for 8.5.3 users (separate forum page) so i thought I'd duplicate the solution here for those who arrive by Google. Cheers.