Reading old .WRK files

[Bw]

Hi- I have very old CW projects. They were done on Windows YEARS ago. I've since swapped to Mac and CW is no longer what I'm using to record.  Registration at Cakewalk seems to be disabled, so there doesn't seem to be a way to download their Mac prototype. While I can get the audio files (WAVS) out of my old BUN files by dragging them into my other program, I do have the tempo information and I very much would like to have that so that I can resync everything.

SO- what about this:

Is there a way to see the Tempo in, say, a text editor by opening a .wrk file?

I can see a lot of information there, ie- what takes I used, what the project was called, etc. But nothing is obvious to me that would indicate tempo. 

I realize this is an off the wall question, but I'm not sure how else to do this other than figuring it out in the new project (but it's not 100% accurate).

Thanks!

[John Vere]

I do believe that the Mac version was a total flop. People use something called boot camp to run Cakewalk on Macs.  You should be able to open WRK and Bun files in CbB and then from that you can save the files as midi or CWP   Bun files are often reported to become corrupted and not a safe way to archive projects. 
 

https://help.cakewalk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360035040954-Cannot-Open-a-Project#:~:text=Cakewalk by BandLab can open Cakewalk Project Files (.&text=bun)%2C and even pre-,a few things to consider.

 

Edited February 3, 2021 by John Vere

[Bw]

Thanks for the reply. I hauled out my old windows laptop and after 3 hours of windows updates, I installed the new cakewalk. We'll see if it can read the files. Hope so. 

[John Vere]

Ya hope that works. As I said I’d save them as midi files because those can be opened by any DAW. That will give you the tempo and possibly other midi instruments. You should be able to Open them on your Mac Daw and drop the audio in there to re build 

[sjoens]

Most of a .wrk or .cwp file info is coded so unless you can decode it there's not a lot of info to glean from it.

[Promidi]

I have MIDI WRK files that I did as far back as 1998 (in Cakewalk Pro Audio 9) that open (and play) fine in Cakewalk by Bandlab (all versions to the latest)