I occasionally tear tags from mattresses and pillows, but I always remove the safety warning labels from electrical equipment. If I'm not capable of avoiding electrocution by now, it's hopeless.

Ha! Same here.... Thanks for the info John

Hi @adam-thacker, you can permanently delete the <.sfk> (audio waveform) files anytime w/o losing anything important. However, if the project is in progress you may want to keep them, otherwise when you reopen the project, it will take a while longer to rebuild the waveforms... "a while" depends on how many events and their length.

rraud, Magix forums moderator

And another lesson learned. I deleted every .sfk on the PC, some going back to 2009. Looked at my sound FX library and it was so amazingly clean, then I went back to my Vegas project and had to let it rebuild peaks. Luckily this one is small so it only took a minute. But I'm definitely going to start cleaning house when projects are finished.

@adam-thacker I created some executables to handle this. One removes remnants, useful for when you've completed a project and no longer want to access those files. The other just hides them, useful for applying to folders containing files you frequently use. For example: A folder of sound effects or even video overlays.
If you are interested, just download it here.
To use them, just drop them (I recommend copying and pasting them) in the folder that contains the remnants, and it will remove or hide all remnants of the folder and subfolders.

Thanks a lot. That'll come in handy, hoping that Vegas will be getting a pretty good workout over the next few months

@adam-thacker If any of the given answers solved your problem, I recommend marking the answer as solved.

I have noticed many complaints about the .sfk files and their "polluting" of the users' hardrives. We don't get too many complains on this forum, but it is a common complaint on Reddit.

Gary and I will discuss some reasonable approaches to maybe help with this. As with anything in VEGAS, making changes to the creation, deleting and locating of these .sfk files is not trivial to do without significant side effects.

Sound Forge (Pro and AS) has options that will delete or hide the <.sfk> waveform files: "Delete new temporary files on close" and "Hide new temporary files"
These settings may be helpful if they could be added to Vegas 'Preferences' menu.

rraud, Magix forums moderator

Or create an option to determine WHERE to store these type of files so we can have a universal folder that we can control.

Or create an option to determine WHERE to store these type of files so we can have a universal folder that we can control.

What if you have two different audio files but both have the same name and they both build their SFK file into the same folder? I guess the "last" one would win? And then you'd have an incorrect wave form drawing for the other one? It's definitely more complicated than "picking a folder to store them"...

Personally, they've never been an issue for me. I keep all the files for one project in one folder. Once the project is done, I just delete the whole folder (yes, I have a backup on an external drive - sfk files and all.) There are a few exceptions - files that are used in multiple project. In those cases, they're in use anyway.