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[paresh]

Hi guys - I'm recording w Cakewalk GT Pro on a laptop & suddenly my hard drive is filled. I checked the audio file folder in GT & it has 15 gigabytes of wav files. I need to delete those to create space on my hard drive but don't know the best way to back up to CDRW. GT Pro creates a generic file called wrk file after I record & to back it up I have to create what they call a bun file.
My questions: If I create a bun file & send to CDRW can I then delete the wav files?
Are bun files smaller than wav files - the wav files are too large to store on a CD?
Mainly - I'm working on a large project - 2 - 30 min sound tracks. When they are all mixed down they will fit on a CD but I want to save a premix version as well - 32 tracks each 30 min long. What should I do? Thanks!!

 

[seryozha]

a couple of options

I have no IDea how that version of cakewalk saves its stuff but in Homestudio '04 it saves a wk file and an actaul wav for each track...the wk files are just basically 24KB Que data for cakewalk..they dont mean much if the wav's arent their. I would reccomend getting a much bigger hard drive if your low on space after 15Gigs

Maybe your internal drive is upgradable?



You could just by an external hard drive (hope your laptop has firewire) and just transfer everything onto their or tell cakewalk to use that as its recording/saving drive?

Hope that helps.

 

[crankz1]

If I'm not mistaken the .bun files also contain the wave data and it will be slightly larger than the wave files alone.
Best bet would be to investigate the possibility of a larger internal drive or an external Firewire drive. If the laptop doesn't offer a Firewire port, you can always get a PCMCIA cardbus Firewire adapter (provided the laptop has a PCMCIA slot). I paid roughly $225 for a WD 120gig Firewire drive and a PCMCIA card. Whereas I also upgraded the internal drive on my HP laptop to a Hitachi 60gig 7200 RPM drive ..... That internal drive alone cost $326. I had no choice on the internal, as the original drive failed. Sure I could have gotten a slower less expensive drive, but seeing as how I use the laptop for occasional remote location recording, I opted for the fastest drive I could get.
Point being ... The external option is cheaper when dealing with large fast drives. Plus the added benefit of dedicating the second drive as the working directory for the recording program you use.