FIX THE RECENT FILES SYSTEM - When Annoyance Becomes Rework One Too Many Times!

[Rickddd]

I love sonar. Been a fan for years and years.  Plowed a ton of money into it starting around 2010.  Now am enjoying the subscription sonar.  I think I've been pretty patient but my patience is wearing thin.

If you do a Save-as and begin working on that, if the program crashes or freezes, the newly created "save as" project doesn't show up on the saved file list.  So when you restart cakewalk and you go to open the last file on the recent files list, you actually don't get the most recent file.

I try to remember this which in itself is annoying but sometimes I'm focused on you know... other things like creating music... so I accidentally load up a prior version from the last recent files entry. I go happily about my business only to discover that I'm actually working on a prior file.  And now I have to waste time transferring those changes to the actual last file.

It seems to me, and I'm a retired programmer, just change the recent files list to be updated as soon as a Save-as is executed instead of waiting for either a manual save or a timed save.  That would totally solve the problem.

Enough new features. Fix this very basic and kindergarden level feature... now.

Ok I'm angry. Rant over.  I love sonar.  Please fix this in the next update.

PS: If this is a "too hard" then shut the recent files list off.

 

 

Edited Tuesday at 11:38 AM by Rickddd

[Xoo]

I just checked and Word (for example) behaves like you propose so it's not unusual behaviour.

Similarly (although I think this was fixed, as it was broken for years), the recent list should be updated on open, so a crash before save doesn't not write to the recent file list.

[Bass Guitar]

Ya actually the other 3 Daw’s I use list everything top to bottom time wise. The song at the top is the last thing you saved. 
Seems logical. 
 

Edited Tuesday at 03:58 PM by Bass Guitar

[AB99]

I am interested in the Bakers thoughts on this. It would be nice to have that be reliable.

I take notes on a pad of my work. I also name peojects with a date and time. That helps with some of the confusion.

Even if it seemed like a total fix, I would still name the projects with a date and time stamp, so to speak.

[Amberwolf]

FWIW, most programs I use don't update MRU (most recently used) until program close, so any changes are lost during program  or OS failures.  I'm so used to this that I didn't consider it was something that might be done differently...it would be nice if the MRU was updated at every change instead.  

 

(I typically SaveAs so often that the entire list will be full of just the last hour's work, no matter how many slots a particular program has...so when it doesn't update the MRU at all until close it means that it only has the version I *opened* when I started working, however many hours ago I started....) 

 

 

[mettelus]

I can understand the OPs frustration. If you step back and think about it, the Undo history defaults to triple-digits (or used to, but forget the actual number) and that updates interactively. It isn't much of a stretch to ask that the MRU is updated interactively as well, especially since it has far less load to handle.

[foldaway]

I'd also love to see this fixed!

My old workaround was -> Quick start > Local projects > Browse > Quick Access to find the project in windows recent list.

However, this no longer works reliably with the last update & now a file opened this way will only load once the quick start dialog is closed!  bizarre!

[Bass Guitar]

Sonar has always had a problem with default handling of projects. We all just come up with personal solutions so it rarely happens.
Example I’m in the habit now of not trusting the start screen and have it disabled. If I need it, I open it. 

I open my projects in Windows explorer because otherwise I might accidentally open a backup copy. 

I have noticed that the old start screen for Sonar Platinum to me is much better. 

Waveform has a unique system which uses tabs at the top of the screen. It leaves access to any project ( Edits) as a tab until you click close. 
So when you start your day the last thing you worked on is the tab on the right. the down side is these other projects are loaded into memory on startup. But I guess we have 64 GB of memory so not a big deal. 
 

I like the Studio one start screen with a chronological list that seems to go back to the beginning of installation of the program. And midi files have a different icon. 

Edited 8 hours ago by Bass Guitar