I just would love that those sfk.files automatically get a "hidden file" flag when created.

But then we could really accumulate a lot of clutter without knowing it. I'm pretty sure I can hide files by extension in Directory Opus (my Windows Explorer replacement), but I avoid doing it for this reason.

I'd love to see the end of sfk files in my media folders. They take up space in file listings, they confuse the view, they get orphaned, and they're just generally messy and an irritation.

I just would love that those sfk.files automatically get a "hidden file" flag when created.

yes ,if thats possible ,then im good

Hello, in my case, when I do a project I put all the media that I use in a folder and I saw in the necessity to create a bat (.exe) to hide them and to uncover them the .bak, .sfk, .sfl files at will, because among so many generated files I lost

I leave the link to the exe: Ocultar (Hide) y Desocultar (Unhide) archivos (files, .bak, .sfk, .sfl) Sony Vegas Ver.0.1.rar

No virus, no spam.

Regards (Sorry for my english)

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i am just saying that ,i use windows 10 ,and i import files like drag and drop from folder to vp15 direct.

i am just saying that ,i use windows 10 ,and i import files like drag and drop from folder to vp15 direct.

Just use for this workflow the Explorer Window in VP15 and disable in view "All files". This Explorer shows than only Media files, NO sfk.files.

Or arrange your Windows explorer on file type.

I just would love that those sfk.files automatically get a "hidden file" flag when created.

This would be ideal at least for my use case. Also, if there is sway towards going down a "VegasInfo" subfolder or some similar path - at least for me - that folder should also have a 'hidden' flag. I don't need or want to see them.

Windows explorer organising files by 'Type' is how I work around it. I don't really want to have specific folder views and 'work arounds' for media folders however.

EDIT: I do also agree that it is a fast and reliable method - and that's the most important stuff taken care of!

for now, i use arrange by group setting in windows 10 and it works fine 😄.bet let's see in future,thanks you all

I don't see the logic of having the SFKs mixed in with the video and audio assets.

Because by not doing so, you've created a relative path that exiles the files if anything gets moved around or renamed.

A local file path looks for the files in the same folder, regardless of how you rename or move it. This was explained a couple of different ways above.

The folder I described was in the same folder as the video and audio assets, so how would it get lost if you renamed the folder

JohnnyRoy wrote on 6/10/2009, 12:49 AM

They are metadata files. Some of them contain the information to draw the audio wave forms while others maintain the marker locations when you save with markers. There is no way to not create them and they are useful in that you don't have to calculate the wave file each time you open a project. So while there is no harm in deleting them (Vegas will just recreate them as needed) they are a required part of Vegas' functionality.

We have a tool in VASST Ultimate S Pro that will clean them up for you. It can detect orphan files and just delete those or delete all of the files from a given folder on down the folder tree.

 

Yes, it's 2017, so there are ways to do what you want ;-)

You could add a script to delete or hide the .sfk files, or run the command attrib +h *.sfk on your folder