Help! Cakewalk Broke After Update! SOLVED. Sort of.

[Byron Dickens]

I tried to update CbB today and it broke.

 

First, I couldn't download the Microsoft Edge web view (or whatever it is called. I can't remember exactly. This is what I got:

So I clicked "close"  and then got:

"Try again" didn't work, so I cancelled. I got the message "rolling back updates" and then my desktop icon vanished!

 

I navigated to the folder where CbB is installed, found the icon and tried to launch it. I got this:

Closing the pop-up got a couple more similar ones about missing dll s.

Edited February 26, 2021 by bdickens

[Byron Dickens]

After this, I tried downloading CbB  through the Bandlab Assistant. I got the same message about Microsoft Edge, but the rest of the installation proceeded OK.  Or so I thought.

When it finished, I opened a file and started working. It went OK for a while & then CbB crashed.

 

Now, I can launch CbB, but it takes an exceedingly long time.  Then I try to open a project and it again takes an exceedingly long time and eventually stops here:

 

[Byron Dickens]

FWIW:

I also updated Native Access, Steinberg e licencer and the Spitfire app just prior.

 

I have also been unable to get any Windows Updates on this machine.

[scook]

the best place to report problems with the current release is...

the current release thread.

For 2021.01 the thread is 

 

[John Vere]

If you had read the release notes for the update you are told that it will ask you to install what you ignored. It’s needed for the way you can now update without the assistant  Don’t blame people for not doing it as it seems like a scam. Badly done once again with that pita assistant 

[Byron Dickens]

@scook
If I just did this today, shouldn't I have been getting the latest hotfixes, etc?

 

@John Vere
I'm not following.  Explain please.

[scook]

Yes, if you downloaded the file today, by definition it is the current production release.

My point was issues with the current production release should be posted in the thread dedicated to the release.

[dappa1]

Since downloading this version the drop outs are consistent. When are the hot fixes coming out? 

I am using the Scarlett 3rd Gen interface.

[Byron Dickens]

Please don't hijack my thread. Start your own. Your issue is totally unrelated and you will just create confusion.

[Byron Dickens]

 

I did a system restore and it rolled CbB back to 2020.11.  Still no joy.

 

Then I was online and opened up CbB so I could capture a crash dump and it started working.

 

PFM