Anders Madsen Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 ..as I started Cakewalk, it had a hybrid theme, dark and light grey in a mix. I opened prefs/themes, and only tungsten and mercury were available. My Cakewalk content/themes folder is on F: (Has allways been) Strange thing is: Tungsten and mercury are not there. Just the custom ones, including the one i lost are there. There is no "Cakewalk content" folder on my C drive. So where are the available Tungsten and Mercury themes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scook Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 Mercury is the name given to the resource files used by CbB. The resource files are stored in the program folder. The default program folder path is "C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core". TungstenTheme.fth is a theme formatted like the user themes except it too is stored in the program folder. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anders Madsen Posted September 28, 2021 Author Share Posted September 28, 2021 Thx a lot, scook. Can I put my other themes in "Cakewalk core"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scook Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 No, they must be in the "Cakewalk Content\Cakewalk Themes" While I use the default location for Cakewalk Content "C:\Cakewalk Content" if I were to relocate it, I would create a directory junction from the default location to the new location. For example if I moved "C:\Cakewalk Content" to "F:\Cakewalk Content", I would open a command window as administrator and type mklink /j "C:\Cakewalk Content" "F:\Cakewalk Content" Once that is done there is no need to change anything in the registry or program preferences as the OS knows to use "F:\Cakewalk Content" whenever a program tries to access "C:\Cakewalk Content" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anders Madsen Posted September 28, 2021 Author Share Posted September 28, 2021 Now I understand why there was a sudden change; I disabled the folder-protection-thing in windows for a second.. That registry operation, though.. Ouch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anders Madsen Posted September 29, 2021 Author Share Posted September 29, 2021 I tried to put a copy of "Cakewalk Content\Cakewalk Themes" on C drive, but the themes in there are still not available. How can I make Cakewalk look for themes there? (Or, preferably on F) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scook Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 AFAIK, themes are hard-coded to reside in the "Cakewalk Themes" folder under "Cakewalk Content" where ever that may be. All Cakewalk DAWs and CbB use the same "Cakewalk Content" location. By default it is "C:\Cakewalk Content" The path is stored in the registry in ContentDir under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cakewalk Music Software Folders in "Cakewalk Content" cannot be compressed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anders Madsen Posted September 30, 2021 Author Share Posted September 30, 2021 Thanks a lot. I should be able to find that key, and edit correspondingly. Very much appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anders Madsen Posted September 30, 2021 Author Share Posted September 30, 2021 (edited) I agree. I could not find the key under "Content locations" nor in "Theme" Edited September 30, 2021 by Anders Madsen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scook Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 Directory junctions are much easier than messing with the registry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anders Madsen Posted September 30, 2021 Author Share Posted September 30, 2021 (edited) Sad to say, the Directory junction did not work either.. Also: I can start the editor from prefs.. Edited September 30, 2021 by Anders Madsen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scook Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 1 hour ago, pwalpwal said: directory junctions are beyond most users' tech knowledge When I suggest using them there is almost always an example in the post. They are not that hard to create and much easier and safer than editing the registry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scook Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 1 hour ago, Anders Madsen said: Sad to say, the Directory junction did not work either.. Also: I can start the editor from prefs.. To recap there are user created themes that do not show up in the theme drop down in preferences in CbB 2021.04 or newer and the themes are compatible with CbB 2021.04 and the theme filenames have the file extension sth and the themes are stored in an uncompressed folder called "Cakewalk Themes" under "Cakewalk Content" and the path specified in ContentDir in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cakewalk Music Software resolves to the "Cakewalk Content" folder containing the "Cakewalk Themes" folder. If all this is true, this is a problem for support@cakewalk.com 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anders Madsen Posted September 30, 2021 Author Share Posted September 30, 2021 (edited) Ok. An update made the old *.sth files incompatible. Edited September 30, 2021 by Anders Madsen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scook Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 There must be ContentLocations is under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cakewalk Music Software\Cakewalk\Core\ContentLocations ContentDir is here several level up from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cakewalk Music Software\Cakewalk\Core\ContentLocations 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scook Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 13 minutes ago, pwalpwal said: sure, but what do you think about my other point? Not much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anders Madsen Posted September 30, 2021 Author Share Posted September 30, 2021 Yes, scook, I finally found it. It has the correct path, but the files are *.sth. I'm off to find some newer ones. Thanks a lot, man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scook Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 If the themes were not regularly maintained they may have gone out of date years ago. Starting with 2021.04, CbB checks for incompatible themes. Most theme updates are cosmetic, however; when an image size changes, the theme must be updated or there are display issues. Fortunately, the updates needed are all documented in this thread 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anders Madsen Posted November 11, 2021 Author Share Posted November 11, 2021 (edited) Some windows update activated "restricted folder access". -Once I turned that off, I can load themes again. Edited November 11, 2021 by Anders Madsen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjoens Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 On 9/28/2021 at 11:56 AM, scook said: No, they must be in the "Cakewalk Content\Cakewalk Themes" Would be nice if Themes were included in Preferences > File > Folder Locations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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