Cakewalk.exe Missing

[Jemma Hooper]

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.


 

[Jemma Hooper]

15 minutes ago, Jemma Hooper said:

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.


 

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

 

[Promidi]

If all you need to do is install Cakewalk by Bandlab and keep it activated and updated, then uninstall BA and install Cakewalk using the Cakewalk web installer.

https://downloads.bandlab.com/cakewalk/setup/CakewalkSetup.exe

Cakewalk can now update and stay activated without needing BA.

I have not had BA on my PC for ages.

I cannot answer why your Cakewalk core folder would be empty (accept for that CHM file).  Maybe an Anti-Malware program went rogue.

[Jemma Hooper]

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?

[Jemma Hooper]

8 minutes ago, Promidi said:

If all you need to do is install Cakewalk by Bandlab and keep it activated and updated, then uninstall BA and install Cakewalk using the Cakewalk web installer.

https://downloads.bandlab.com/cakewalk/setup/CakewalkSetup.exe

Cakewalk can now update and stay activated without needing BA.

I have not had BA on my PC for ages.

I cannot answer why your Cakewalk core folder would be empty (accept for that CHM file).  Maybe an Anti-Malware program went rogue.

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.

[Promidi]

Just now, Jemma Hooper said:

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.

Yeah, I wouldn't be either......  

Still stick with the web installer.