.wov file will not open in mc4?

This thread    might help to explain it a bit.


 AS I understand it the WOV is a picture file not a music file. I think it is the "pictures" of the waves that you see in the tracks.... these can be deleted. MC4 will re-draw them the next time you run the project.

When you went into the waves... they were the track clips.... if you recorded a track and split it or deleted a part or punched in a fix....all of those are saved as waves.  Cake keeps a record of how to put them all together in the project when you open it. If you have somehow managed to delete or corrupt that folder MC4 will not know how to reconstruct the project.

It is always a good idea to save a project to a BUNDLE FILE when you complete it or finish working on it for the day. Bundles save ALL the data, all the waves, all the midi in one folder.

If you did not delete the files either on purpose or by accident, the files are still there...all you have to do is find them. check to see where you have MC4 set up to "default save" it's folders and projects. It should be in "Cakewalk Projects" on the C drive by default.

Good luck in finding them.

That is precisely why I don't save as bundles (cwb).
It save the whole thing as one file, and if it gets corrupted, you lose the whole thing.
On the bright side, your audio tracks are saved as .wav files as you record them, so they should be intact somewhere on your machine.
The file names may be somewhat cryptic.
If you save the project with a specific name before you record anything, that name will be included in the file name, and the individual files are easier to find.
If you have project folders, it makes it that much easier.