Deleting multiple files after recording..

[tsunchoo]

If you record in Logic and immediately decide to discard the recording you get an option to delete the files completely. This is handy especially when you've recorded multiple tracks at the same time like drum parts and want to get rid of all of them.

 

If, however you want to delete a bunch of related tracks at a later stage it's harder to do. You have to locate all the files in the audio bin and then control-delete them.. and for some reason selecting audio files in the arrange window doesn't always highlight the correct files in the audio bin - so the process of finding and deleting files can be tedious.

 

Am i missing something?

[Facepalm]

Am i missing something?

Yeah.

 

Select Unused > Delete Audio Files

[Scott Jackson]

Select Unused > Delete Audio Files

 

Just to clarify.

 

In the Bin...

 

Edit>Select Unused

 

then

 

Audio File>Delete File(s)

[tsunchoo]

that's not the same thing chaps you didn't understand the question.

 

i'm not looking to delete unused audio files.. i'm looking to select audio files from the arrange window and delete those from the disk.

 

i don't wanna go fishing around in the audio window.

 

i want it to delete the files i select in the arrange window from the disk

 

sorry if that wasn't clear..

[ski]

You can't select audio files from the arrange page because audio files never appear there. Only regions appear there.

[tsunchoo]

ok, thanks

 

but.. when you first record and you have the option i have described above to delete the files straight of the disk you are deleting 'regions' which constitute the entire 'audio files' are you not?

 

let's say for the sake of argument that you have not changed the length, chopped, sliced or otherwise reused any part of the files/regions and they are sitting there just as you recorded them on the tracks - is that same option still available and how?

[Scott Jackson]

you didn't understand the question.

 

 

 

 

 

[tsunchoo]

i perfectly understand the question - i came up with it you see.

 

so i take it you don't know the answer?

[triplets]

i'm not looking to delete unused audio files.. i'm looking to select audio files from the arrange window and delete those from the disk.

 

i want it to delete the files i select in the arrange window from the disk

 

 

You can't delete files from the disk in Arrange.

That's the way Logic works. Same in Pro Tools.

What you see in Arrange is regions linked to files in the Audio Bin.

[tsunchoo]

thanks for a simple answer

[tsunchoo]

i understand that regions are instances of audio files.

 

yes, i can select each one and go find it in the audio bin (as it doesn't always seem to highlight the actual file) but this is beyond tedious - especially when the filenames are identical except for a number.

 

navigating files and their relationships to one another in the audio bin is rubbish as far as i'm concerned, just another example of how ill-named Logic is.

 

and just because it's the same in Pro Tools doesn't mean that it's not simply bad design in two different applications - if these issues aren't addressed they never get fixed.

[triplets]

If you want to clean up the project do the following:

 

In the Bin go File/Select Unused and then select Edit/Delete

 

Then go to the main menu and go File/Project/Clean Up

[Jordi Torres]

Right after recording, if you hit delete you'll get a dialog giving you the option to send that file straight to the trash (delete) or keep it. This is the exception to the rule. In this case you are deleting right from the arrange.

 

J.

[tsunchoo]

thanks jordito but that was covered at the beginning

 

@triplets what exactly does the 'clean-up' step do? the first half of your reply would delete either unused regions or audio files but what would clean-up get me?

[triplets]

Clean up deletes the unused files in a Logic project once you used the delete unused files function in the Bin.

It lists all the unused files that are to be deleted and you can select the ones you want to keep. It even includes older bounces, so you better double check.

 

And this time deletes means it puts them in the Trash.

[tsunchoo]

thanks for the clarification - so easy to fill up a macbook pro when recording drums