S3 Patch Troubles

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I'm having trouble installing the S3 patch. Once the install wizard starts a message comes up saying that Sonar3 is not installed properly. I find that hard to believe.

Here is the advice that Cakewalk Support offered:

1. Choose Start | Run and enter regedit
2. Hit the plus next to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
3. Hit the plus next to Software
4. Hit the plus next to Cakewalk Music Software
5. Hit the plus next to SONAR Producer
6. Highlight the 3.0 folder
7. On the right side, right click on Install Directory and enter the
proper path to your Cakewalk exe file.

If you have Cakewalk installed into a root directory like E:/ and not
in a folder, then you will need to re-install it into a folder.

After doing this, the result is the same. So, I'm wondering about step 7...the patch name has an underscore in it. Do you actually type in an underscore, or is that a space?


Any wisdom would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Terry

p.s. I remember the 2.2 patch...it installed perfectly with the Install Wizard. The average user (myself) is uncomfortable editing the registry.
 
I did this and it worked fine. First make sure you are in the sonar3 folder (on my regedit it was in a folder marked SONAR PRODUCER....not the SONAR folder above it). Next, it sounds like you are typing the name to the patch.... what you want to type in is the name to the folder where sonar.exe now resides..... So it would look something like C:music filessonar.... if sonar3 was in a folder called sonar, in a folder called music files on your C drive.

Take Care
 
tkingen said:
After doing this, the result is the same. So, I'm wondering about step 7...the patch name has an underscore in it. Do you actually type in an underscore, or is that a space?
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Underscore is a character and should be typed a underscore. But it's not the path to the patch-file you need to type in step 7 as rjt pointed out.
 
Thanks guys for your help.
After uninstalling and reinstalling S3 everything works fine. The patch installed without a hitch, too.
I must have done something wrong with the initial installation...running two versions and then removing S2.2, and all on a second hard drive, New territory for me!
I must say that Cakewalk was stellar in getting back to me on this. Replies came very fast.
Life is good again!

Terry
 
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