I'm trying to get instrument presets back from a machine that crashed onto a new machine. Since it's gone, I can't go to the plugin manager and export presets, but I still have the hard drive, and I can see they exist in Drive:Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Cakewalk\Shared Presets\{C13C56A3-72CE-416F-9FB2-811AD0C38FC1}. Unfortunately they are not in .spp format for whatever reason so they can't be imported.
Copying this directory over to the new machine doesn't make them appear in Cakewalk.
NEW presets do appear, however, and I found that I can manually add in my old presets by editing the registry entry Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cakewalk Music Software\ActiveMovie\Presets\{C13C56A3-72CE-416F-9FB2-811AD0C38FC1}). The entries are just file paths back to the Shared Presets folder. But I have a ton of them.
Is there a way to get Cakewalk to read the Shared Presets folder without having to make registry entries for each preset? Or a way to convert the presets in this folder to .spp format so I can import them in the plugin manager?
Edit: The instrument I was looking at was Z3TA+2, which apparently is the only one to store a path in the registry back to the file. So I guess no matter what I need to copy the registry files from the old computer?
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Thomas Happ
I'm trying to get instrument presets back from a machine that crashed onto a new machine. Since it's gone, I can't go to the plugin manager and export presets, but I still have the hard drive, and I can see they exist in Drive:Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Cakewalk\Shared Presets\{C13C56A3-72CE-416F-9FB2-811AD0C38FC1}. Unfortunately they are not in .spp format for whatever reason so they can't be imported.
Copying this directory over to the new machine doesn't make them appear in Cakewalk.
NEW presets do appear, however, and I found that I can manually add in my old presets by editing the registry entry Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cakewalk Music Software\ActiveMovie\Presets\{C13C56A3-72CE-416F-9FB2-811AD0C38FC1}). The entries are just file paths back to the Shared Presets folder. But I have a ton of them.
Is there a way to get Cakewalk to read the Shared Presets folder without having to make registry entries for each preset? Or a way to convert the presets in this folder to .spp format so I can import them in the plugin manager?
Edit: The instrument I was looking at was Z3TA+2, which apparently is the only one to store a path in the registry back to the file. So I guess no matter what I need to copy the registry files from the old computer?
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