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Dumping old Cakewalk audio data
Hi,
Actually, it's a certain kind of file , IIRC (which I don't, which is why I'm here asking ) that Cakewalk (old one from 2002) has taken up a lot of disc space with . I was hoping someone here would remeber about this, as I just set up my old computer again , but it's clogged up with audio or files I don't want , but don't remember how to get rid of . I don't believe it's stratght audio data; I remember getting a tip once about deleting a certain file type that (IIRC) is related to how Cakewalk automatically saves project data . Thanks, Dar |
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Dumping old Cakewalk audio data
On 03 Jan 2012, Oliver Wendell Douglas wrote in
rec.audio.pro: Actually, it's a certain kind of file , IIRC (which I don't, which is why I'm here asking ) that Cakewalk (old one from 2002) has taken up a lot of disc space with . I was hoping someone here would remeber about this, as I just set up my old computer again , but it's clogged up with audio or files I don't want , but don't remember how to get rid of . I don't believe it's stratght audio data; I remember getting a tip once about deleting a certain file type that (IIRC) is related to how Cakewalk automatically saves project data . You don't have to remember what the file is - you can just look. If you know that it's a Cakewalk file that's taking up the space, surely you can find it with a file search. It could be a number of things - it could be WAV files from a project, it could be archived BUN files, it could be the picture cache (WOV) files. YOU have to tell US in order to get a sensible answer. We're not mind readers and we can't see your computer from here. We need specific file names. |
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Dumping old Cakewalk audio data
On Jan 3, 8:32*pm, Nil wrote:
On 03 Jan 2012, Oliver Wendell Douglas wrote in rec.audio.pro: Actually, it's a certain kind of file , IIRC (which I don't, which is why I'm *here asking ) that Cakewalk (old one from 2002) *has taken up a lot of disc space with . I was hoping someone *here would remeber about this, as I just set up my old computer again , but it's clogged up with audio or files I don't want , but don't remember how to get rid of . I don't believe it's stratght audio data; I remember getting a tip once *about deleting a certain file type that (IIRC) is related to how Cakewalk automatically saves *project data . You don't have to remember what the file is - you can just look. If you know that it's a Cakewalk file that's taking up the space, surely you can find it with a file search. It could be a number of things - it could be WAV files from a project, it could be archived BUN files, it could be the picture cache (WOV) files. YOU have to tell US in order to get a sensible answer. We're not mind readers and we can't see your computer from here. We need specific file names. I can find wav files so no assistance is required there . I removed as much audio from the projects as I could but there's still a huge amount (for the old gray mare) of space being occupied unnecessarily. I found a folder with zillions of small wav files but a glance indicated it was only a small % of the space in question . The bun files might be the ones I'm thinking of, as I just ran across a blurb about them being tied to audio data and other information. I think that's what I deleted years ago to solve the problem. I didn't find a folder with those recently , so let's work with that. Where might I find those?. Cakewalk Home Studio 2002, if it matters. I believe I started saving project work as wrk files instead of bun files (or the other way around ?)to alleviate this situation after the first round of overfill/deletion , but it got filled again. (It's old, only a 40g drive. I fired it up again because it has all my old settings and routing , soundcard, etc., and I am loathe to set up another computer now) The wov does not sound familiar ; it's not what I deleted bunches of years ago. Is that video data (from image -containing projects, which I don't do) or just screenshot data from music project pages ?. Let me know if I need to poke around to provide more info. I haven't been working with CW for years , hence the ignorance . Thanks, D |
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Dumping old Cakewalk audio data
On Jan 3, 8:32*pm, Nil wrote:
On 03 Jan 2012, Oliver Wendell Douglas wrote in rec.audio.pro: Actually, it's a certain kind of file , IIRC (which I don't, which is why I'm *here asking ) that Cakewalk (old one from 2002) *has taken up a lot of disc space with . I was hoping someone *here would remeber about this, as I just set up my old computer again , but it's clogged up with audio or files I don't want , but don't remember how to get rid of . I don't believe it's stratght audio data; I remember getting a tip once *about deleting a certain file type that (IIRC) is related to how Cakewalk automatically saves *project data . You don't have to remember what the file is - you can just look. If you know that it's a Cakewalk file that's taking up the space, surely you can find it with a file search. It could be a number of things - it could be WAV files from a project, it could be archived BUN files, it could be the picture cache (WOV) files. YOU have to tell US in order to get a sensible answer. We're not mind readers and we can't see your computer from here. We need specific file names. Yep, 20gb of Cakewalk Audio Bundle files....that would be them. cool, now back to the midi age .... DS |
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Dumping old Cakewalk audio data
On 04 Jan 2012, Oliver Wendell Douglas wrote in
rec.audio.pro: Yep, 20gb of Cakewalk Audio Bundle files....that would be them. cool, now back to the midi age .... OK. You may not want to get rid of those - they're complete projects containing audio, MIDI, automation, and other data, all compressed in Cakewalk's proprietary format. Most Cakewalk users don't use the BUN format any more - it was fragile and liable to become corrupt. People now usually use the "per project" scheme where they save the whole project and it's associated data in it's own folder. Then they backup that folder. |
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