Something I've noticed about the Local Projects listing

[timboalogo]

Every once in awhile when I'm out of creative ideas, I open a bunch of older, incomplete projects just to see if they provide a creative spark.

I'll open 10-20 projects. Rather than close Sonar and be left with a list of these projects on the Start Menu rather than my recent projects, I open Task Manager and choose End Task on Sonar. This used to work, and the next time I'd start Sonar I'd have my old project list back. But now the older projects populate the menu even though I killed the task. So I'm guessing that Noel and the programming team have changed how and when the project list is written to the registry and my evil plan no longer works.

Nitpicky, but this is bothersome.

Anyone have a workaround?

Timbo

[Amberwolf]

LP MRU is proibably stored in the windows registry; you could hand edit that to remove them if so. 

[Promidi]

Part of my daily back up routine also backs up the following key:

"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cakewalk Music Software\Cakewalk\Sonar\Recent File List"

[timboalogo]

Thanks folks,

Yeah, I could remove the entries but what ticks me off is I've lost the old entries. Maybe Promidi's idea would work for me. Then I could just merge the .reg file back in. It's just frustrating that it changed in the first place.

Thanks!

Timbo

PS Is there a programmatic way to back up that key? 

[Promidi]

1 minute ago, timboalogo said:

PS Is there a programmatic way to back up that key? 

That is actually how I back up this key.  I just use a CMD command line script that gets run at the end of my normal back up..

The part in the script that specifically backs up Sonar’s recent files is as follows.

regedit /e "D:\Data Files\Reg Keys\Sonar\Sonar Recent_file_list.reg" "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cakewalk Music Software\Cakewalk\Sonar\Recent File List"

Of course, change the "D:\Data Files\Reg Keys\Sonar\Sonar Recent_file_list.reg" into where you want save your specific reg file.

[timboalogo]

Thanks for that Promidi, I wouldn't have been able to remember how to do the script.

Timbo

[Jonathan Sasor]

On 9/22/2025 at 5:29 PM, timboalogo said:

Every once in awhile when I'm out of creative ideas, I open a bunch of older, incomplete projects just to see if they provide a creative spark.

I'll open 10-20 projects. Rather than close Sonar and be left with a list of these projects on the Start Menu rather than my recent projects, I open Task Manager and choose End Task on Sonar. This used to work, and the next time I'd start Sonar I'd have my old project list back. But now the older projects populate the menu even though I killed the task. So I'm guessing that Noel and the programming team have changed how and when the project list is written to the registry and my evil plan no longer works.

Nitpicky, but this is bothersome.

Anyone have a workaround?

Timbo

This was done by design in a recent update. Before it wouldn't update the project list until the app exited normally, which you were bypassing by ending the task. The more common use case was to retain the recent list in the case where the app closed unexpectedly. We'll take it up for consideration if there's a way to elegantly handle being able to defeat that list. 

[timboalogo]

Just now, Jonathan Sasor said:

This was done by design in a recent update. Before it wouldn't update the project list until the app exited normally, which you were bypassing by ending the task. The more common use case was to retain the recent list in the case where the app closed unexpectedly. We'll take it up for consideration if there's a way to elegantly handle being able to defeat that list. 

Thanks Jonathan, that would be nice - maybe next to File -> Exit, have a File -> Exit and Don't Save the Recent List but better worded than mine!

[Amberwolf]

7 hours ago, timboalogo said:

Thanks Jonathan, that would be nice - maybe next to File -> Exit, have a File -> Exit and Don't Save the Recent List but better worded than mine!

File-Exit (discard all)