I will never complain again...

Jessariah67 wrote on 8/6/2005, 6:51 AM
...about all the "extra" files that Vegas creates.

Last night, I go to open my master file for the movie we are premiering next weekend and I got an error message. Tried again, and got an "item not found" message. Plugged the drive into another computer -- same thing. I had been backing up files as I edited, but was not as good about it recently, so I was faced with the fact that everything that had been done to the audio in post was lost...until I changed the .bak file to a .veg file. That one opened.

Thank you Sony programmers for the .sfk and .bak that have driven me nuts over the years. You literally saved my team about 50 hours of work.

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FrigidNDEditing wrote on 8/6/2005, 7:55 AM
whoa - didn't know you could do that.

thank YOU for posting that little tidbit - good to keep in the vault if you need it later.

Dave
jlafferty wrote on 8/6/2005, 11:10 AM
I just wish you could specify a target folder for ALL of them to save to. That way, you could just back up that one folder occasionally, at your discretion, and not have directories all over the place cluttered with what often ammount to useless files. For instance -- doing a lot of .wav editing in SForge, then going from that directory to CD, you've either got to pre-delete all the .sfk or whatever files, or pick around them from inside your burning app. It's a minor thing, but it eats up a lot of time over the course of work.

Same with .veg and .bak files when working with moving data from one machine to another using a data DVD -- pre-delete or pick around if you're just moving .avi's.

Then there's the issue of saving current .veg files to the desktop, which I often do, and watch the space get cluttered and messy real quick.

- jim