Lost Video Island

littleton_pace · Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:42 am Post subject: back up files (i think)

not technically vidding altho it does slow my vidding down cos i can't find the scene i need fast enough.

everytime i save a clip or piece of audio; i get this back up file. now im not sure that it IS actually a backup file but im calling it that

ill screencap it and see if that helps. I used to keep them all but then i realized if i delete them; nothing happens to the core scene. but i have probably over 1000 of these just in a vidding context and they do take up space; is there a way to stop them being created? or at least to stop me seeing them?

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Polarbear · Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:22 am Post subject:

You know when Vegas loads the peaks for video files? Well those stop it from having to load the peaks again. Maybe you can change the settings in Vegas so it doesn't create the files I dunno.
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Aislynn · Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 6:42 pm Post subject:

I looked those .SFK files up back when I first got Vegas and that's exactly what they are, information created to help Vegas load that file more quickly the next time. Basically like the equivalent of a cookie (the legit kind

) your browser uses to help it load a page faster. You can delete them without it doing any harm but as far as I know you can't stop Vegas from creating them outright.

Of course, I haven't really looked I guess!

*pauses to look*

Nope, can't find anything either through Vegas' help or just from a general search, sorry! You can at least delete 'em when you see 'em!

Fan4Lost · Advanced Vidder Joined: 12 Jan 2006 Posts: 2224

Yeah, there's no way to turn them off.

Trust me I checked because they annoy me in all my directories. They're tiny files, so I would just ignore them.

That's Sony's way of feeling like they are taking over your computer.

littleton_pace · Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:52 pm Post subject:

thanks for all ur help guys

its just such a bugger; they're everywhere. altho i do love that i dont have to wait for the peaks to build; i had no idea the two were related

ill just have to deal with it :S

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sweetevangeline · Expert Vidder Joined: 24 Sep 2006 Posts: 231

if you set your files to group together as types, so the avis will be together as will the wmvs etc, then it's easy to just ignore the back-up files because they are in a group of their own