Deleting Audio Files (from Project File)?

Hi everybody, does anybody know …

 

How do you delete audio (audio files) from a song/project file and make the audio file actually delete from the computer not just disappear from the project arrangement? The only way I know of is to delete it from the project arrangement first then go to File/Project Management/Clean Up …/Delete Unused Files,

 

However, I worry about doing that as it does not (to my knowledge) give you any confirmation of what files it is going to delete and I want to make sure it isn’t going to delete something else that I actually want!

 

The reason for this question is I want to delete some unneeded song/project files and want all the audio from them to be deleted too so they are not left languishing somewhere on my computer forever! So I thought I would delete all the audio from the project file first and then delete the project file itself.

 

Thanks for any help

Gareth

When you go to Clean Up Project, after the first dialogue you click OK and then it gives you a list of all the files it's gonna trash.

You have to double check that list because it includes bounces from the Bounces folder.

Thanks Triplets. I will try that. Actually there is only one audio file recorded in the song so it should bring up only one file to delete. The reason I was worried is I might have other projects with similar or identical names in other folders e.g NewSong_01 etc. and I was a bit worried it might delete audio recorded in other projects at the same time.

 

BTW. is there no way of just selected the audio file in the project/song arrangement and deleting it from the computer? Like you can when you first record it?

If you did a Save as a folder with Audio files checked, the projects are self-contained.

 

If you didn't save with audio files checked, you run the risk of deleting shared files.

...BTW. is there no way of just selected the audio file in the project/song arrangement and deleting it from the computer? Like you can when you first record it?

 

In the top left in project audio window, click AudioFile > Delete File(s)

Thanks JakobP, I will check that out. I found a similar option (hopefully a different one) which just deletes the audio from the project arrangement rather than from your computer. Anyway I will try what you said, thanks.

Thanks Jakob. That has absolutely done the trick. I took a while to get round to doing it, but all good!

By the way. I have one more problem! I have tried to delete some other unused audio files in another project but when I go to delete them through the project audio window I get this scary warning message! It says, “used region(s) to remove from Tracks!” Abort or Delete. What is it talking about? The file/s are not in the arrangement! I have aborted because the warning has worried me!

Just delete the regions from the audio window.

 

Whatever it deletes will be in the trash anyway, so you can still recover then.

 

You can then open other projects to see if they were affected.

Does “regions” mean audio files, i.e songtitle_5#08.aif ? If so it's basically saying it's going to remove them (the audio files) from the tracks but they are not on any tracks! They are not in the arrangement any more.

If they're not in the arrangement anymore then they are unused for that project.

 

You can always go to File/Project Management/Consolidate to make sure all audio files are where they're supposed to be.

 

One file can represent more than one region if editing was performed.