Sven Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 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: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Kelley Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 Are you talking about opening a Cakewalk project from File Explorer vs. opening it from within Cakewalk? What version of Windows is this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sven Posted May 27, 2023 Author Share Posted May 27, 2023 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol_Jonesey Posted May 27, 2023 Share Posted May 27, 2023 So what happens if open the same project from within Cakewalk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sven Posted May 27, 2023 Author Share Posted May 27, 2023 I'll try that but even if it works I still like to open projects from Windows. I'll report back... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billp Posted May 27, 2023 Share Posted May 27, 2023 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIBI Posted May 27, 2023 Share Posted May 27, 2023 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starship Krupa Posted May 27, 2023 Share Posted May 27, 2023 A spot o'Googlin' reveals a possible cause: https://forum.deltamotion.com/t/server-busy-error-message/462 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sven Posted May 29, 2023 Author Share Posted May 29, 2023 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sven Posted June 14, 2023 Author Share Posted June 14, 2023 I haven't figured this one out yet but I'll post something here if I solve it. Just a nuisance. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvideo Posted June 14, 2023 Share Posted June 14, 2023 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sven Posted June 15, 2023 Author Share Posted June 15, 2023 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve@baselines.com Posted November 4 Share Posted November 4 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msmcleod Posted November 4 Share Posted November 4 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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