How to manage files

Musiclover wrote on 6/27/2005, 12:34 PM
I just want to confirm my understanding with any experienced user there. Let us say that I want to delete unused media files from my disk, I open the media pool view for the project and check to see if a media file(wav) is showing Used Count of 0. If so I go ahead and delete it by using "Remove all unused media..." button. Then go to the Explorer view and select the same file and delete it. If there Vegas does not give me any warning of the file being used elsewhere, I can go ahead and confirm. Is this the safe procedure?
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Musiclover wrote on 7/3/2005, 7:21 AM
No replies? There must be someone out there who do not mind helping out?
wobblyboy wrote on 7/3/2005, 8:22 AM
I believe that Vegas gives you the option of also deleting the files from the disc if you want to.
Musiclover wrote on 7/11/2005, 9:55 PM
Well that is what I would like to do to keep my disk clean. My question is what is the safe procedure so that I do not delete a file that is used in some other project?
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Chienworks wrote on 7/12/2005, 4:00 AM
The use count in the media pool only shows you files in use in that project. It will not inform you about other projects that use that file. Just because that use count says 0 doesn't mean that the file isn't still in use in other projects.
James Young wrote on 7/12/2005, 8:29 AM
Chienworks, clearly the guy already knows this, and this is why he asks the question...

To answer the question, there is no way that I know of in Vegas to do this. Maybe it's part of the new Media Manager, I'm not sure. Anyone care to look?

In Windows Explorer, with details on, you can see when a file was last accessed. You'll probably have to add it to the view, I right-click on the header and have to go down to "More..." and find "Date Accessed" and check it's box.

If you have this detail displayed, you can sort by date and easily see if something has been opened recently or not. So I image, though I don't regularly do this but I have in the past, you can open up all of my Vegas files, then go back to Windows Explorer and if there are any audio files NOT accessed, that is a sure sign that they were not used in those veg files I opened.

Try this, it's not as time-consuming as it seems, but if anyone has a faster method please share it.