I’m using Cubase 14 Pro on Windows and something very strange happened.
There was no visible crash, no error message, nothing unusual.
The next time I opened Cubase, it suddenly behaved like this:
It asked me to select my audio interface again (as if it was a fresh install).
The Recent Projects list was completely empty.
My window layouts and UI configurations were gone.
Some preferences were reset or missing.
All my projects are still on disk, but Cubase no longer shows any of them in the recent list.
After checking the preferences folder, I found that Defaults.xml had been overwritten by Cubase (it contains no recent entries at all), even though all my other configuration files are still intact.
So my questions are:
Is this a known issue in Cubase 14 where preferences or the Recent Projects list can disappear without a crash?
Why would Cubase overwrite Defaults.xml during a normal startup without warning?
No crashdump was generated
Is there any way to recover the Recent Projects list if Cubase replaced the file with an empty one?
Thanks.
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I’ve never heard of that and haven’t experienced it myself in any version of Cubase.
Good question! Cubase generally only writes changed settings to Defaults.xml when it is closed; something obviously has gone wrong during this write process (not a great insight, I know…)
I assume you don’t have a backup, otherwise you could restore the file and wouldn’t be asking here. So the most you can do is manually reconstruct the “GRecentDocumentPaths” section (good luck!).
I’d therefore recommend that you back up the Cubase settings folder regularly, for example with this simple line in a CMD file:
@“%ProgramFiles%\7-Zip\7zG.exe” a -m0=LZMA2 -sfx7z.sfx “%APPDATA%\Steinberg\Cubase 14_64.7z.exe” "%APPDATA%\Steinberg\Cubase 14_64"