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These were experiments on instruments and vocals that have been superseded,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]

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Edited 4 hours ago by Sock Monkey

[Roy Slough]

Thanks Guys,  I can see situations for both methods.
I currently use "save copy as" to hold a copy before I attempt something significant, just in case I mess things up.

I will try the clean up after making a security copy of the entire folder (just in case).
Also currently redundant tracks are just routed to a muted bus, so technically they are still in the project, but I will delete these tracks prior to the "Clean up audio" option.