Corrupted Files - HELP!!!

[collinp]

I've had some trouble recently with cakewalk not opening my files. Upon opening them, it appears to load the files, then when it's almost finished it locks up and I have to reboot the entire system.

This first occured on the normal wrk files located on my hard drive, then did the same thing on the bundled backups located on a cd-rw. I have 9 total songs all related to the same project - this occured on 2 of the 9.
The other 7 opened fine.

Anybody have any help... these songs were near completed ready to be mixed... I'd hate to have to re record all of them. I'm scared to even open the other files until I can find out whats going on.

PLEASE HELP!!!

[nubius]

Do you use SysEx messages in these songs? I'd uncheck the option to automatically send SysEx messages. Of course, this won't help if the files are corrupted.
The best thing to do is reconstruct the file from the wave data originally stored when you recorded the song. Depending on the version of Cake you use, you'll find the files in WAVEDATA or TAKE VAULT. Look for WAV or ~WAV files that have a file creation date around the time you did the recordings.
Then create a new Cakewalk WRK file and insert these audio files.

[nubius]

- just another thing

I think version 7 & 8 used the WA~ format. These are still WAV files (coz you can rename them to .WAV and play them)