Subject:is it necessary to keep .sfx files? can I delete them if I wish?

Posted by: nikopapas

Date:10/12/2002 6:25:38 PM

is it necessary to keep .sfx files? can I delete them if I wish? Or will this cause problems?

thanks!

NIKO

Subject:RE: is it necessary to keep .sfx files? can I delete them if I wish?

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:10/14/2002 12:03:31 PM

See this SoFo Knowledge Base article.

HTH,
Iacobus

Subject:RE: is it necessary to keep .sfx files? can I delete them if I wish?

Reply by: Chienworks

Date:10/14/2002 3:40:42 PM

NIKO, do you possibly mean .sfk files?

Subject:RE: is it necessary to keep .sfx files? can I delete them if I wish?

Reply by: nikopapas

Date:10/18/2002 12:36:28 PM

I'm sorry, yes, .sfk files. Can I delete these? I read the SoFo article about how they speed things up and such but must I keep them?

Subject:RE: is it necessary to keep .sfx files? can I delete them if I wish?

Reply by: Chienworks

Date:10/18/2002 2:59:34 PM

You don't need to keep them. Once you've saved your audio file and closed the window, they're not used anymore. However, if you do delete the .sfk file, the next time you open up the audio file again the .sfk file will be recreated. If you think you'll be using a particular file again soon, you might want to leave it's associated .sfk file intact for a while to save yourself some time. Once you know you're done editing then you can delete the .sfk file.

Subject:RE: is it necessary to keep .sfx files? can I delete them if I wish?

Reply by: SonicJG

Date:10/18/2002 6:01:43 PM

Also, you may want to note that in SF6.0, if you go to Options/Prefs/File, you have the option of checking "Delete temp files on close", which will automatically remove the .sfk's when you close Sound Forge.

This is mainly designed for people who work in certain production environments, but also for people who either don't want to take up the extra disk space (relatively small for .sfk's, but relatively large for .sfap0 (audio proxy) files), or who consider them to be clutter, and don't mind spending the extra time building peaks again when opening their files a second time.

Cheers,
Joel