As the title says I created a Cakewalk bundle of a project for backup to my E drive and this mediaid.BIN file seems to have been created as well. I have no idea what that is. Could someone explain what this is and what I should be doing with it? Thanks, guys.

Huh... I'm dumb. It actually it says the file was created last year so I guess it doesn't have anything to do with the cwb but I didn't notice it in the folder before I saved. Still have no idea what it is or where it came from. Is it HDD config related?

Are you sure Cakewalk created it? Google the file name, it looks like a Windows 7 backup file. Not gonna comment about using bundles.

Hi, scook. Yeah I wasn't paying close enough attention. Doesn't seem to be cw related. Just seemed to pop up after I saved. Weird. I'll change the thread title. Hope you've been well.

Well enough to post. I see you are back from school is the the summer break? BTW, as I indicated above the file was created by the Windows 7 backup utility.

Heh. Well more like shifting focus back to actual mixing/recording after the huge study adventure so yeah I'll be bugging you guys again. As far as the file yeah it seems to be related to back up so it must be from when I made an image after I first built the system. It's weird though, I clicked on it to see what it was and Windows said it didn't recongnized the file type and launched the online help. lol

That would make sense. The file extension is not associated with any program. The .bin extension usually means the file contains binary data (i.e. not human readable text) and would only be accessed by the program that created it, not by manually trying to open it.

I'm just kind of wondering if that is the complete back up or simply a part of it. Oh well... now that I have a little more info I can research it more. Cheers.

The file is place in the root directory of the drive that contains the backup. It is used by the Win7 backup utility. It does not contains the data that was backed-up, that should be in another directory on the drive. If you deleted the backup, you can remove the MediaID.bin file, otherwise leave it alone. I do remember a day when placing user files, like your cwb in the root was frowned upon. Better to keep your own stuff in folders. I am sure the technical reasons (filesystem limitations on the number of entries in the root) are no more but it does keep things a little neater.

I have to totally reconfigure the drive set up on this system because I've made a total mess of the file structure but it's gonna be a HUGE undertaking starting from scratch. I screwed up thinking that my Project files should be on C and the audio on the second drive. Everything is working though so I'm just kind of ignoring it for now.