Advice on how to clean up track data no longer used.

[Roy Slough]

I am working on a project where we have many tracks that are now redundant. 
These were experiments on instruments and vocals that have been superseded,

Therefore, I have may wavs in my audio folder that are no longer required and are making the folder too large.
Is there a way to identify which audio files are still in use and those which can be deleted/archived.

N.B. there are some which are the result of bouncing from stereo to mono (as the original file was stereo but only contained a mono recording i.e. both L&R identical)

Thanks

[reginaldStjohn]

The best answer I have see is to do a project "save copy as", save to a new folder and make sure the tick box at the bottom to include project medias files is checked.

 

[David Baay]

Just run Utilities > Clean Audio Folder with the project open. Save As works but it's an unnecessary workaround for a simple function that already exists and doesn't require you to rename the project, copy all the audio to a new location and then manually delete the old project folder to recover the space.

That said, Save As might make sense if there are also a lot of alternate versions of the CWP file with different names in the same project folder that you saved along that way and want to discard as well or only keep as an archive.

[Sock Monkey]

Just to add you can use save as to make a backup copy of the file and this is a good idea anyway because nobody should have one copy of any project that is important to you. 
You don’t need to re name it , just change the file location to a backup up drive. 
Always check the copy audio box. This will kill two birds with one stone.