PKF. What is the point?

[roberth64909144]

Why aren't these just hidden? They seem completely unnecessary. The other audio software I work with doesn't generate some random extra file. So what's the point of having them?

Is there anyway to stop Audition from generating them when you export? They files obviously work totally fine without the PKF. If you're working with anything more than 2 files, you end up with a folder that has a whole bunch of junk mucking up the work. 

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

On most peoples' systems, they are hidden - that's an OS thing though, nothing to do with Audition. They are just as necessary now as they've ever been, but because graphic card capabilities are much improved, it's now much faster to recreate them when opening a file - unless it's a huge one. In this case you could be delayed by a few seconds, and if you have a large multitrack session it could possibly be quite a wait whilst they are regenerated, and they have to be; they contain all of the visual information required to display the waveform of your file on screen. They are not about the audio at all - just the way it's displayed.

If you are only working with a relatively small number of shorter files it's fine not to store them. If you go to Edit>Preferences>Media and Disk Cache, there's an option at the bottom that will stop them being saved if you take the check out of it.

[Ant Fau]

Thank you. I absolutely hate these files cluttering up my SFX and music libraries.  And serially delete them. Thank you for sharing the way to turn off the generation of them.