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What Vegas files can I safely delete?
An I correct in assuming that it’s perfectly safe to delete most of the smaller files generated by Vegas, excluding Veg & bak Files because they will recreated if necessary?
Additionally you could also delete any BAK files provided you have saved your project again & created a new veg file? If I have captured any files using the PMB utility is it OK to delete all of the other files in the folder other than those with M2TS & JPEG
extensions as well?Is it possible to get the program to place as many of these “deletable files” all onto one folder & keep just your video files in another, thus making it easier to clear out what isn’t necessary?
Is there any downside to doing all of this?
Thanks in advance
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You can safely delete .sfk, .sfl, & .sfap0 files. These will be regenerated as needed by Vegas.
These files are kept in the same folder as the original media because they use the name of the media. If Vegas placed them all in one folder they might overlay each other due to duplicate media names in other folders and that would be bad.
~jr
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“Is there any downside to doing all of this?”
Is there any upside to doing all this?
Steve Mann
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[Stephen Mann] “Is there any upside to doing all this?”
Well… one is cleaning up your hard drive of thousands of tiny files that serve no useful purpose for media that has long since been deleted yet each file takes up 512 bytes even if it’s 1 byte long. 😉 (or worse 4098 bytes if you for formatted your media drive with large sectors) Some of the .sfap0 files are multi-megabytes in size because they contain audio proxies. It all adds up.
Ultimate S Pro has a function to sweep your hard drive of these pesky little files and either just delete all the orphans or delete all of them in one click.
~jr
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Since my projects are each on their own hard drive, I don’t notice that my drive needs any cleaning up.
Steve Mann
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I do all of my editing on my RAID 0 and then archive to off-line drives. Usually before I archive a folder I’ll clean all those little files up. I guess if you use one drive per project it doesn’t matter.
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What about the MODD & .MOFF files which are created my PMB can they be deleted as well?
Thanks in advance
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[Paul Gregory] “What about the MODD & .MOFF files which are created my PMB can they be deleted as well?”
I have no experience with PMB so I can’t say. Maybe someone else who uses it can offer help. I have no need for it.
~jr
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Hi, Paul!
In searching for answers to a different question I came across your inquiry regarding MOFF and MODD files. I’m copying and pasting the info for your convenience and will provide source link below. I also use PMB and wondered what the MOFF and MODD files were used for. Thanks to your question… now I know! 🙂
by trial and error…
MOFF file is used by Picture Motion Browser to “show expanded thumbnails”. This function can be turned on/off by the menu button on the upper right. Losing MOFF is no big deal.Source:
RTH
https://dotwhat.net/moff/8933/
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