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Retain Cakewalk Preferences dialog

If you choose to retain or migrate your preferences from a previous version of Cakewalk, the SONAR installer finds the existing Cakewalk.ini files on your system. The list of Cakewalk.ini files appears in the Retain Cakewalk Preferences dialog box. You may choose one from this list. The preferences and settings stored in the older version's Cakewalk.ini and TTSseq.ini files are then transferred to the identically named configuration files for Cakewalk. Cakewalk migrates certain preferences to the Windows Registry rather than to the Cakewalk.ini file.

When you migrate your preferences, SONAR will:

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Locate the Data directory (WaveData folder) used by your previous Cakewalk installations and direct SONAR to use that folder for its audio storage and retrieval as well.

Note: Migrating Preferences will leave the Data directory in its current location - it does not move your audio recordings to a new location. It simply points SONAR to the audio you have saved during previous recording sessions. This means that your previously recorded songs that contain audio tracks should continue to open and playback as expected. It will also write new audio data to this same location. You are free to manually change your Data directory at a later time in SONAR's Options, Audio, Advanced tab. Advanced users may want to manually adjust this Data directory location.

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Automatically import any custom Instrument Definitions you used in your previous Cakewalk version.

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Automatically import other custom settings you have made in various Cakewalk menus and INI files.

	Note: Migrating Preferences will leave the Data directory in its current location - it does not move your audio recordings to a new location. It simply points SONAR to the audio you have saved during previous recording sessions. This means that your previously recorded songs that contain audio tracks should continue to open and playback as expected. It will also write new audio data to this same location. You are free to manually change your Data directory at a later time in SONAR's Options, Audio, Advanced tab. Advanced users may want to manually adjust this Data directory location.

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