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I recently had to reformat my hard-drive due to windows problems. I saved all my acid and wav files i thought i would need. Now, if I open a acid project, it can't find the wav file because they are now .sfk files.

Can I convert a .sfk file to a .wav file or am I fucked?

Thanks greatly,

Trent Hays
 
The .SFK files are wave peak files in Vegas, so I'm betting they are the same thing in other Sonic Foundry products as well. They allow opening up of existing wav files faster after they first time, when these files are generated. Essentially that's about all they do. I don't know if there's a way to extract the wav data from the .SKF file, but I seriously doubt it. If those are all you have, then most likely the wavs are gone for good.

Have you tried searching your hard drive for the actual wav files to see if they are in just another directory than where Acid thinks they used to be? If the path is different in any way whatsoever, Acid won't be able to find those files.
 
What Jon X shared with you is correct.

Before you open Acid you need to figure out where your WAV. files are located (you can use Windows Explorer).

Now, open Acid/open the file you want/when it asks you do you want it to find the missing file answer, YES/goto the location of the WAV. file in question.

You will have to do this for every song you open up (as well as every WAV. that is in a different folder).

Hopefully, this will help you out, if not post us back :) .

SPIN
 
Thanks, but more af a problem.

I appreciate everyone's response, but the problem is more detailed than that.

I had to format my hardrive, therefore i saved all the files i thought i would need. I saved everything to a data format cd-rw. However, all i have on the cd-rw is a few .wav files and all my .sfk files. I know what .sfk files do and how they are peak format files. However, the .sfk files are rather large which leads me to believe that they are including a lot of information. I can't find the .wav files.

I guess I'm screwed, right?

Thanks,
Trent Hays
 
Yep, if you don't have the WAV. files, :( you are very much screwed.

Sorry about that....

spin
 
zenkitty,

Hey I don't have a solution for you but I'm curious about your Windows probs and the reformatting.

I've got a computer consultant coming over tomorrow to check out my system as I've had quirks in programs etc. especially N-Tracks. Lots of error messages and closes. Lots of Booting problems and even shutdown problems(I've shut down only to come back later to find the computer sort of half on, black screen with a little white square flashing in the upper left corner.)

Sorry about your wav's. Luckily I don't have that much in N-Tracks yet to worry about if I have to reformat

I'd just like to know more about the nature of your problems. I'm running ME, 700hz, 128Ram, AMD Duron.

Thanks,

Rusty K
 
re: great question

sfk files are rather small compared to wav files at least they are on Sound Forge. If you find a sfk file very much bigger than the others why not try renaming it and see if it flies? What do you have to lose? You can always change it back again. I've saved hundreds of wav files to cdrw disks with no problem. For each wav file there's supposed to be a sfk file with the same name save for the extention. When I archive I'm a nut and have 3 copies made of all wav's and also burn at least one audio disk of them just in case I'd have to add them back that way. Hope you have some success.
 
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