icemel Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 Looking for quick way to remove all unused media from media bins, either in a project or via saving/exporting project with (only the used) media. Is this possible or is it a manual operation? (100s of slides unused!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borate Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 With the focus on the bin, press <ctrl-A> to copy all. Press the <del> key or right-click on a selected clip and DELETE. A prompt appears. Check the "do the same" box, then click CANCEL. If you make a mistake, press <ctrl-Z> or EDIT | UNDO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icemel Posted June 22, 2021 Author Share Posted June 22, 2021 Thanks borate but that will delete all. I only want to delete the unused files. If there was a way to sort by used/not then I could delete manually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borate Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 Test it. Here, following that method deletes ONLY unused clips. Don't click DELETE, click CANCEL, after checking the box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icemel Posted June 22, 2021 Author Share Posted June 22, 2021 Oops! Yes you are right! I missed the "CANCEL" sorry....what a great little trick! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nationalsolo Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 Hi Further to this .... With the display set in a "normal" preview window size arrangement this method will remove the unused clips from only the one bin displayed and will need repeating for each bin in turn. However if you drag the preview screen(s) as wide as possible by dragging the vertical white bar to the left all the bins will display one under the other as they all become narrow with a vertical scroll bar to the right instead of at the top. It's easier to see if you switch to List view ........ The Ctrl+A step will now highlight all the bins together. The method (using Cancel) will now remove unused clips from all the bins in one go. The exception will be the sequence bin.(You can't delete a sequence if it is the last one,) so simply skip that when it is prompted. Nat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icemel Posted June 23, 2021 Author Share Posted June 23, 2021 "all the bins in one go" even cooler! Thanks Nat. Luckily I only had about 10 bins this time. Maybe this will become a feature someday vs what seems to be a handy hack. Cheers Mel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nationalsolo Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 Hi Mel It's been put forward as a possible enhancement possibly making it more intuitive or even adding a right click menu item to the bin area. (e.g. Delete unused clips from the bin) Another point I mentioned was that whilst the TN view shows which clips in the bin(s) are marked as used with a green tick, the List view doesn't show this although in very early VP versions I feel certain they were. It would be nice to keep some continuity across the displays. Nat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoystonSmith Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 On 6/23/2021 at 4:20 PM, icemel said: "all the bins in one go" even cooler! Thanks Nat. Luckily I only had about 10 bins this time. Maybe this will become a feature someday vs what seems to be a handy hack. Hi Mel, now I was just looking for this feature. I finished a project so creating a backup without bloating it with my unused files would be great indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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