Cakewalk on Windows 10 - Opening/Creating Project Hangs "Creating UI" - How I Fixed
First, let me say I have been a faithful Cakewalk user since about 2010, so I am not new to the product. I am an IT Professional with about 30 years experience, so not new to the concepts of software installation and troubleshooting. Also have been a developer so not new to the concept of applications should not swallow exceptions -- and I do think that is what is happening here. Lastly, applications should provide feedback to the user, ideally a log file that users can use to troubleshoot and
@Thomas S Carlisle Good troubleshooting.
The application doesn’t explicitly look at files on your desktop. However the browser uses a shell component that we have no control over that may be enumerating files in the file system. I wouldn’t worry about privacy concerns. Its not cakewalk looking at the zip file, its the windows shell Windows in some cases can enumerate files within zip’s since it allows browsing into them.
Creating or opening project files themselves do no attempt to look at