Jemma Hooper

I had run the web installer TWICE and it didn't repair the original install. As noted above, my only recourse was scorched earth, which I'm not super-excited about.

So... I've done a full "dust and ash" uninstall and reinstall... but I would still love to know why such a drastic approach was necessary. Surely it would be possible do some kind of repair mode install rather than laying waste to all of the customisations and configuration I had done in organising 600+ plugins, etc?

Currently trying this. But this is the scorched earth approach I didn't want to use. https://help.cakewalk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360034066393-Clean-Install-Cakewalk-by-BandLab

Hi folks Having a weird issue today and have tried refreshing my install of Cakewalk multiple times to no avail. Yesterday, I tried to run Cakewalk - no issues. Fired up cleanly. Today? The Icon on my taskbar was blank - bad sign. Clicked on it to try it anyway - it's a dead link. So I tried to launch the app using the Bandlab Assistant and got an Access error. So I go to Explorer to check out that folder and... Sure enough? No Cakewalk.exe. To be clear - I also made sure it's not lying around as a hidden file. Certainly doesn't seem to be. Cakewalk.EXE is no longer in the building. I've checked the folder using Explorer in administrator mode and the file is definitively not there. I've checked my recycle bin. It's empty. I've run setup from the latest web installer twice, including a full refresh of all of the other bits and pieces. Weirdly, the Bandlab Assistant is insisting that the app is correctly installed. I've also done a low-level file search using a command window. No instance of Cakewalk.exe found. So... short of scorched earth and a full reinstall of all Bandlab and Cakewalk binaries from my computer, is there anything else I should be trying? And on a separate note: Why is the existence of Cakewalk.EXE not verified by the application installer? Sounds like a pretty fundamental validation step.