Backup help

[Max Arwood]

If I wanted to back up all the cakewalk settings, which folder would that be? 

(Recording mid settings preferences etc?)

 

[Max Arwood]

I think it is in ……\core

I’m wondering if everything is in “core”. 

[msmcleod]

%APPDATA%\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core  is where some of the settings are, the most important ones being: AUD.INI, Cakewalk.ini, TTSSEQ.INI, ctrlsurface.dat and master.ins

If you use MIDI learn with control surfaces or your keyboards knobs/sliders, you'll also want to back up %APPDATA%\Cakewalk\ACT Data

A lot of the options in Cakewalk itself however are in the registry, under Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Cakewalk Music Software\Cakewalk\Core

Your plugin inventory is stored under Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Cakewalk Music Software\Cakewalk\Cakewalk VST X64

Control surface presets are stored under  Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Cakewalk Music Software\ControlSurfaces\Presets

You can export the relevant parts of the registry using regedit. 

[msmcleod]

It occurred to me I must stress that many of the registry entries (especially the plugin inventory) also contain absolute paths to the files in the file system.

For backup/restore purposes on an existing install, this shouldn't be an issue, but if you intend to restore the registry on a different machine or fresh install you should take care to ensure that any paths held in the .reg files are correct for that machine.  The best way to make sure that this is the case is to make sure you install everything to the same location on the fresh install.

In saying that, VST locations are actually less of an issue, as the next plugin scan should update the location as it re-scans each plugin, but you should be careful to ensure you don't have duplicate copies of plugins.