No

From the OP

notonly that but it jumed to 2 of my external drives and changed all those mp3s and mp4s to sfk files too.....while leaving my other 4 hard drives alone.....total head scratcher

Still think this is a technical issue, Eric?

Still think this is a technical issue, Eric?

@Kinvermark Something appears technically strange.

@david-a8563vespertine David, your unusual experiences are obviously not something your fellow forum members can solve for you. Suggest you lodge a ticket with Vegas Support. Provide details of your system and your Vegas Pro serial number. Please keep us advised of developments.

no i dragged the video and audio file into vegas from the desktop on my pc c drive, then i rendered that video saved the file to desktop

Wait a moment.

What was the output file name you specified in render as dialog?

If it was the same file name as your source file, Vegas would deleted existing file first (showing delete confirmation dialog).

In any case, it should not delete many files at once.

Also when rendering VP, doesn't create a sfk file. A sfk file is created when importing a video(+audio) file into VP.