Isn't s4 backwards compatable???

[kgbjamin]

UGGGH! I recently was working on a project that I had opened and closed without incident over the course of two or three days. Well this morning I tried to open the project that is saved as a bun file .cwb. S4 Producer seemed like it was opening the project normally and then stopped and gave me an error: The file you are attempting to open is not compatable with this version of sonar. Huh!?!??? I have the latest update installed on my DAW, ver 4.02. I have not made any changes to my system or to sonar I might add prior to attempting to open this file. The last project that I was working on with S4 was this very same file and it was saved by S4 as a bun file. I now don't have any other versions of sonar installed on my DAW at this time. Even if I did how could this be?? Shouldn't S4 ver (4.02) be backwards compatable? I have removed S4 and all previous versions from my DAW since this problem has occurred and reinstalled S4 Pro and the updates with still no joy! Please help, I was preparing to use this project this weekend and was 3/4 of the way complete with this song....

[dachay2tnr]

I don't think the message is really reflective of what the problem is.

It's highly unlikely another version of Sonar would be able to open it. S4 is backwards compatible; however, earlier versions are (of course) not forward compatible.

I would contact Cakewalk Tech Support. They might be able to help get it open for you.

[kgbjamin]

Yeah, my title is a little grey. I sent off an email to cake support and I am waiting for a response now. I was hoping maybe someone here could shed some light on my problem though...

[dachay2tnr]

Originally Posted by kgbjamin

Yeah, my title is a little grey. I sent off an email to cake support and I am waiting for a response now. I was hoping maybe someone here could shed some light on my problem though...

You could try the Sonar forum. http://forum.cakewalk.com/tt.asp?forumid=5

I have seen references to this message many times before, but don't ever recall hearing what the cause is. If you find out anything, let us know for future reference.

[kgbjamin]

dachay2tnr thanks for your suggestion but I posted the problem there and then copied it here. Heres a link to that discussion: http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.asp?m=510784

[kgbjamin]

Hey just in case you were interested this still is an on going problem and we need to have it reported to cakewalk as frequently as it occurs. I've been part of a discussion about it here in case any of you are interested:
http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.asp?m=482932