Very small issue, but there seems to be a bug introduced in WL13 where even if you don’t have “Create Peak Files When Writing Audio Files”-ticked, .gpk files are still created when rendering wav-files.
There are many contexts where audio files are created. In what context does this happen?
When rendering WAV files using the Audio Montage.
I cannot recreate this (by rendering a whole montage or several titles). What are you rendering?
Note: if you open any file that has been rendered, a peak file is going to be created and this cannot be avoided. This is required.
It’s happening all the time here.
Your video is empty.
Maybe it’s an interpretation of 4’33” ?
Trying to post a Dropbox link but not having much luck. 
FWIW, I think something changed with this setting back in WaveLab 12.
Normally I could transfer my preferences to another Mac and not have to deal with this.
Now when transfer my settings to another Mac, I have to manually set this path as WaveLab is not intelligent enough to figure out the native path of a new computer and that causes the .gpk files to live alongside the audio files instead of the hidden cache folder.
But why does Wavelab create peak files when you’ve deticked that option?
Watch the video, the rendered WAV files are not opened and the gpk files are still there when closing all Wavelab windows.
Are you sure these are not old peak files?
Because when I recreate your video case with the setting off, I do not get peak files here.
100%. It’s been bugging me since WL13 installation. I’ve tried to disable and enable the option multiple times as well.
I will try it again and see if there’s any way not to get peak files generated.
Here is another longer video, trying different settings. As you can see, Wavelab generates .gpk files no matter what I do.
Here’s a video of the same operation using Wavelab 12. As you can see, no .gpk files.
Here’s at least something new…
If I choose to render into a contextual folder, WL doesn’t create any .gpk files as expected. But if I export anywhere other than into a contextual folder, I get .gpk files always it seems.
I have found the origin of the problem. This happens because, by WaveLab mistake, when you load a rendering preset, it also specifies that peak files should be rendered.
This will be fixed in 13.0.10
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