"Server Busy" - Error Message

[Sven]

 

I've been getting this message quite often recently when I open a project from Windows (not within Cakewalk).  If I 'Switch To...' it continued opening and works fine  but I'm curious what is causing this:

[Terry Kelley]

Are you talking about opening a Cakewalk project from File Explorer vs. opening it from within Cakewalk?

What version of Windows is this?

[Sven]

This is opening a file from explorer with my older Win 7 machine.  This always worked fine until recently when this message often appears.  It seems like a setting might have changed somewhere.

[Bristol_Jonesey]

So what happens if open the same project from within Cakewalk?

[Sven]

I'll try that but even if it works I still like to open projects from Windows.  I'll report back...

[billp]

You don't say what version of Win 7 you are running (32- or 64-bit), but I have a faint recollection that sometimes a 32-bit app (or maybe plugin) will hang in a 64-bit Win OS when the app displays a prompt that is somehow hidden. Sounds pretty exotic, but even today on 64-bit Win with 64-bit CbB, some old plugins display a prompt that gets buried behind the CbB window. Just a thought.

[HIBI]

When that popup appears, check in Task Manager for CPU-intensive, hung-up, or unresponsive processes. If any of these processes are present, there may be a problem with that process.

[Starship Krupa]

A spot o'Googlin' reveals a possible cause:

https://forum.deltamotion.com/t/server-busy-error-message/462

[Sven]

I'm running Win 7 64 bit.  It doesn't do this every time so it's a bit  tricky to firefight.  It seems to always work fine from within Cakewalk but I usually open projects from Explorer so I can't be sure.

Panda antivirus seems to be using a lot of CPU so that might be it but that's been installed for quite a while.  I'm going to check for any other recent installs that may be causing this.

 

[Sven]

I haven't figured this one out yet but I'll post something here if I solve it.  Just a nuisance.

Thanks.

 

[bvideo]

That "server busy" comes from drag and drop, so if you dragged from the desktop to the program icon (about double-clicking the icon, not sure, maybe the same), it indicates that the program has not yet accepted the handoff after some time period. It may eventually.

So a question is, does Cakewalk normally take a long time to start up on your system? Or maybe is your system especially busy, or just restarting, when you try to open that way?

[Sven]

I've been working on the same project for many months.  I normally just go to that project's folder and double-click on the last saved version.  That then opens Cakewalk.  This server busy message started a few weeks ago and I need to carefully look at what may have changed in the last month to cause this.

[steve@baselines.com]

Starting in October 2024, this has been happening regularly to me.  I don't know whether it is related, but when I open old projects that worked fine before October, some of the plugins are not found (Native Instruments mostly) - It tells me to open up a new Kontakt track and all will be better.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't and I have to create a new track.

 

[msmcleod]

This is more than likely BitBridge showing this message (the thing Sonar/Cakewalk uses to load 32 bit plugins).

Chances are, the plugin its trying to load isn't there, or is having compatibility issues with a newer operating system.