. .the actual words on the drop down menu are: "Remove from Project and Delete files(s)" . . .

. .you really sure you wanna do this? You spent a lot of time putting stuff together? Maybe you wanna think about some of the neat things you've done in the project and want to Keep the veg . ? You can start carving up the veg and saving it as different bits 'n [ieces and naming them as all types iof things .. I dunno . Myabe "MyPhotoMontageThingie.veg" or "HeresHowToMake3DwtihBackdrops.veg" .. . you can slice and dice a project into some really interesting veggies .. AND keep them. They don't take up a lot of space AND you get to use them again by plopping in the NEW media you want .. you can always adjust the new "approach2 .. I just feel you've spent such a lot of time you shoudl want to save at least the VEGGie as as an aide memoire .. .

. .Look apart from anything else you've got a reference point of where to start next time . . Hey, my brain cells are dyng off at a rate faster than my hair is falling out! I NEED to keep stuff . . but that's for me .. you may be a young thing with loads of brain power .. being able to remeber stuff . .. but for me .. it is . .. tooo .. er .. wotz the word . . ? . . TOO hard to remember things! HELL .. sometimes I run up the stairs and wonder what the heck I'm doing up here?!?!!?

.. . what were you asking? Oh yes, setting up new hard drives . .yes of course .. its' very easy. . I find . .that . .no.. that wasn't it .. . arrggghh .wot was it .. oh yes deleting files .. . .. any good .. ?

Think on about deleting everything .. .

Best regards,

Grazie

To add to Grazie's good advice, next time you start a project, you can first create a folder for that project alone, and inside have as many folders as you need - such as "Video Footage", "Voice Over", "Stills", "Music", "Graphics", "MPEG1 renders", "MPEG2 renders", etc .... so that it's easy to locate them for any reason, including deleting afterwards.

. .the other thing is to create a folder with all your Media options in it:

My Proj:

1 - Video

2 - Audio

3 - Text

4 - Photos

5 - Beer Cooler . .. . ;-)

.. . PETER you beauty . .I forgot the Folder thingy .. but I was dealing with a question about scattered stuff . . But yes, do it the Wright-Way and things will get easier too. KNOWING where I've plopped stuff tends to keep this messy editor in some type of order ...

.. Pete howzit? Howzit 'anging?

Grazie

Creating a project specific folder before gathering files for the project is a definate must! Store everything related to the project in that folder and it makes managing the project, backing it up, and cleaning up afterwards a breeze. Don't edit without it!

One thing to watch out for though is files that get shared between projects. I've also got a couple of inter-project folders hanging out there on a drive that contain the stuff i use over and over again (logos, slates, titles, etc.) and simply reference these files in projects. That way, when i delete a project folder, these common files are still safe elsewhere.

Inter projects! Ahaha . .yesssss...... thanks Kellsie,

Grazie

Thats the only problem with the "remove from project and delete files" method is that it will delete my stock footage stuff that I seem to import into every project.
I have a saved generic veg as a shortcut on my desktop, that has some media bins already created with the stock stuff I use in most projects,ie: all my backdrops,test tones,lower third templates.
Then I do the same thing, I have a master folder on my video drive where all the project media go, plus a second folder on my external drive where I render to. then if I want to just back up my rendered files I'll save that folder to disc(s) and then can delete both on the hard drive.I always save the veg too then if i need to I can always go back and recapture if I ever need to down the road.

Thank you all for your advice. The wealth of information (and opinions) you provide here definitely helps.

Grazie, I understand your point about "are you sure you wanna do that?" - I struggled with this for a while, since I have the tendency to hoard anything & everything I invested in more than 5 milliseconds... The problem is that I have a small apartment and I don't have space for the zillions of DV tapes, DVDs and other media to possibly store EVERYTHING including raw footage, edited results *and* the intermediate steps in between. So I compromise on saving only the edited results (and in some cases both raw and edited). Saving projects is simply to much for me, both in terms of space requirements and being able to find/locate/use it later...

As for keeping the .veg file only, I toyed with this idea, but how useful can a .veg file be without the *exact* raw files (and other media pool) that accompanied it originally?

Thanks & Best regards,
Lynn

P.S. I don't do video editing for a living, it's only a hobby - which may explain certain things... :)

Understood .. . Grazie

OK. I did just as you suggested (deleting everything from media pool) and it worked beautifully - except for the corresponding .SFK and .SFL files. Is deleting them using "Whine Doze Expirer", the only way to do this?

"Dem pesky lil varmints!" <spits out gob of baccy> "I rekon yer gonna have to blast 'em - Sundance!"

. .. and this from a Londoner?!?!

Regards,

Grazie

I'll add this to our bug database, deleting a media file in Vegas really should delete all associated files (SFL, SFK, etc.). Thanks for the heads up on this.

For now, you'll need to use the Windows Explorer to delete them. Or you can set the Vegas explorer view to "All Files" and delete them there.