billwright2 Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 I am having a rather annoying issue. If I double-click a CWP file bandlab cakewalk will not launch. I suspect that this is due to cakewalk having to be run in administrator mode on my WIndows 10 Home machine. Is there a way around this. And YES - my CWP files are associated with the Cakewalk application,. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Dickens Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Cakewalk should not be run in administrator mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billwright2 Posted January 7, 2022 Author Share Posted January 7, 2022 It will ONLY run in administrator mode on my machine. If you try to run the application in the Cakewalk Core folder in 'normal' user mode, it never starts and has no footprint in the task manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Dickens Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Something must be wrong with your system. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billwright2 Posted January 7, 2022 Author Share Posted January 7, 2022 Never had this issue with Sonar - only with Bandlab Cakewalk,. Anyone have any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msmcleod Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 6 hours ago, billwright2 said: Never had this issue with Sonar - only with Bandlab Cakewalk,. Anyone have any ideas? We did see a case where this was happening when there was a zip file in the same directory as the .cwp that couldn't be opened by Windows explorer. Either moving the zip file, or moving the cwp file to a different folder fixed the issue. Unfortunately the media browser within Cakewalk is basically a Windows Explorer shell component (i.e. it's Microsoft's). When it's first constructed, it looks at the current directory - so if there's zip file that it can't deal with, it gets upset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andres Medina Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 I have had this issue too, but it was related to having CW running some process (usually after closing), that prevents relaunching the app. If this is the case, check Task Manager and manually end any Cakewalk process, and it will open again by double clicking a project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billwright2 Posted January 7, 2022 Author Share Posted January 7, 2022 (edited) OK - No zip or rar files anywhere in my project folders No instance of cakewalk running n task manager Still cannot double-click a CWP file and launch cakewalk. Also cannot double-click a midi files (associated with cakewalk) to launch. Only way to load file is to use cakewalk's file->open and browse to the file and open it. Also note that the desktop shortcut that the Bandlab installation creates will not launch the product unless you change the advanced properties of the shortcut to 'Run as administrator'. Does anyone think that uninstalling and reinstalling on a drive other than 'C':' (if it will let me) would do any good? Next step might wind up spending almost $600 and switch to Cubase Edited January 7, 2022 by billwright2 Clarification Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitflipper Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 1 hour ago, billwright2 said: Does anyone think that uninstalling and reinstalling on a drive other than 'C':' (if it will let me) would do any good? No. It's unlikely your problem originates within Cakewalk. (Whatever it is, it would probably apply to Cubase as well.) 1. Can you open the project by right-clicking on its name in Windows Explorer and selecting Open? 2. Does it work correctly after a cold start (via the Restart option, as opposed to shutdown/restart)? If the answer to #1 is yes, then the .cwp extension has somehow been disconnected from Explorer's file associations. If the answer to #1 is "no" and #2 is "yes" then you have a zombie process running that's preventing CW from starting up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Dickens Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 1 hour ago, billwright2 said: Next step might wind up spending almost $600 and switch to Cubase There's nothing wrong with CbB. Its something in your system. Money isn't going to fix this, logical troubleshooting is. Nobody else seems to be having this issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billwright2 Posted January 8, 2022 Author Share Posted January 8, 2022 Thanks - this only started with Bandlabs version of cakewalk - never had the issue with Sonar. I have done a cold reboot on my computer then tried to double-click a CWP file. - same thing happens - cakewalk fails to load. I then installed the trial version of Cubase elements and that works fine with it's extensions and I also changed the .mid extension to work with Cubase. The native CPR files and the MID files all open with it properly on a double-click. So, this has to be something in particular with the cakewalk installation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Dickens Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 You could have a corrupted installation or have missing or damaged Microsoft runtime libraries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billwright2 Posted January 8, 2022 Author Share Posted January 8, 2022 Something to do with permissions on the 😄 drive it appears. Since there did not appear to be any way to re-install through bandlab assistant, I then tried to move the cakewalk core folder to a different drive letter. In it's place in the original folder I then created a symbolic link to it. Now everything works as expected. No raised level of access to run the app, and the double-clicking the CWP and MID files launches the application (once I remembered to change the MID association back from Cubase Elements ) Thanks for all the thoughts and things to look at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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