Repair wrk files?

[Zerdos]

For accouple of weeks now i have been trying to open my wrk files. I had a harddrive crash and was able to save almost all my work but i can´t open the files in cw . The size of the files are correct, but the only thing that happends when i try to open them is a error from CW that says "no cakewalk file". Is there some way to get my wrk´s working again? It was many years of work that just suddenly are drawn from me! please! help!!

[imalion]

Hey there.

Sorry to hear about your problem. It's possible that you lost all of the wave files attached to your wrk files when your system crashed. Have you checked you Audio Data folder to see if it is empty?

Good Luck.


Steven

[moskus]

Originally posted by imalion
It's possible that you lost all of the wave files attached to your wrk files when your system crashed.

Then Sonar would open the WRK file but tell you that it couldn't lokate the audio, and will replace them with "silence".

I'm sorry, Zerdos. There's nothing you can do but start over. If you were recording audio you could see if you could piece it togheter from the audio-folder.

[Bulls Hit]

Have you tried using the audio finder? It came with my version of Guitar Tracks. It will scan your drives and try to locate audio files and match them to your projects

[BloodShark]

The best thing is to create a new project and attach the audio one-by-one if the audio files were saved.

[Clemie]

what is your cakewalk? i think sonar doesn't save as wrk no more but cwp / cwb. he must used older cakewalk, right? and i think wrk doesn't contain any audio files.

[dachay2tnr]

Clemie might be on the right track. Did you reinstall Sonar after the crash. When you install, there is a choice whether to associate "old" cakewalk file formats with Sonar (e.g., .wrk and .bun). Maybe you didn't select this choice and therefore Sonar is not seeing the files as a result.