Audio files clean up

[elephant stone]

Hi everyone,

I am using Tracktion 1 NFR (great gift from Mackie !)for one year or so. Satisfaction.
Now I have a lot of projects, and I would like to clean every audio files that are not used in a given song edit, to get some space on my hard drive. Let's consider those files as "draft" takes that are no longer of use once the edit finished.
I did not found how to select/delete those audio file not linked to the edit, and doing it "by hand" is very long.
Any suggestions ?


Thanks


Laurent

[valley]

By far the easiest and safest way is to simply export the final edit as an archive, and have it include all needed media. The archive will contain only what is needed, and when unarchived into a new folder will be a clean version of your project.

[elephant stone]

Hey ! Thank you very much ! I never realy paid attention to this "archive" function... I was blind, now I see !

[Lunch Money]

I've had no problems doing it the way valley describes, and that's the way I recommend other people to do it, too. When I do it, I make backups of the unaltered folders I want to "clean up", then I do the archive/re-import, test my most important 3 or so edits, and if they're good, I delete the backup of the now-contaminated folder.

Greg

[elephant stone]

I am not at home so I will do the job tonight.
BTW: is there a way to display the full clip name in the edit view (= to resize the window), because when clip names are long the end is oftenly truncated (not sure that's english, but means "splitted") and the problem is the end genrerally contains the reference number ("audio_.....split!..# 3").
See what I mean ?

[elephant stone]

Thanks for the tip: it matches perfectly my needs and works fine.
I made a mistake in my previous post as my question was: is there a way to diplay a longer view of the name of the clip in the PROJECT view ? or to reduce the decription zone ?

[MarcW]

There's also the "find orphan clips" function in the project tab. I've used this before but I would use it carefully though, since I've had clips in my project that for some reason are considered "orphan clips" when they are really being used. An archive and re-import would probably restore the status of these clips.

I have had some wierdness with creating an archive and then re-loading it. Sometime all the settings don't come back properly but this seems rare.

Marc

[ornitholestes]

Yes, valley's archive method is best. Like Marc said, "find orphan clips" can be problematic if your songs and edits are using the same folder areas. Trust me, I found out the hard way!

Mike

[elephant stone]

Thanks, Valley's tip is perfectly working the way I was expecting. I just spend 5 hole days and nights recording with a friend, Tracktion running as swiss clockwork tic tac, never bugged nor crashed. I'm blessed.

[zOap]

nice to hear that someone likes Tracktion,
and that it works without any crashes or bugs.. Which is kinda "normal" in T..

I only export sessions to have backups. They are all less
than 500K's, but I use almost only MIDI. Nothing to save for me...

[Mr. Tingle]

Notice the difference between selecting a whole project folder (far left) and selecting an edit and exporting.

Archiving a project folder includes all the edits and audio files. Archiving an edit only includes the files in that edit (probably the option you want).