Save Copy In NOT deleting unused files!

[kickit]

I gop to the file menu & select select unused. Then clear selected. Then do a Save session in. All the files are still in the new copy folder. What's up? Should only be files that are used in session.

7.3.1cs4

[sleadley]

Yes, this is a bit of a problem if you actually look after you have done a clear unused and select a file that you know is not being used in a session you will get a message that the file is used in the session or in the undo Queue.
To be honest this does cause a lot of pain. We have sessions where I clear the audio by hand when doing a save session copy so that I get a small session with only the files I need.
There is a neat way to do it if you own Digidelivery. You can send a session with Timeline files only on the local network to yourself and this works well, but it would be best if a feature like this was built into Pro Tools to save session copy with Timeline files only.
Simon L.

[Wolfgang Eller]

I have to agree.

[Rail Jon Rogut]

Select Unused (Command+Shift+U) and Remove Unused (Command+Shift+B) from your session first - this clears the undo queue and achieves what you want.

Rail

[bad jitter]

Wasn't kickit doing just that?

[Rail Jon Rogut]

Either he wasn't or he found a bug. It may also depend on timing - he should follow these steps one after the other immediately... so the undo buffer remains empty.

Rail

[jimlongo]

Ever since 7.3.1 I have to do the clear unused regions sequence twice. It always reports more regions to delete after the first time.


Command-shift-U
Command -shift-B
Remove
Command-shift-U
Command-shift-B
Remove

never 3 times, but always twice. Removing the first bunch seems to reveal a lot more unused regions.

[2fly]

And don't forget to delete unused playlists!

[trakbytes]

Possibly related, I have come across this situation recently...

When trimming a region that has been previously edited, I'll sometimes have a section where I can't pull a region out past a certain point. When zooming in on the area and trimming the next region head, I'll find a tiny region hidden under the trimmed region. Just selecting that area, I often cannot delete it; it shows up as a single vertical line in the track. If I trim both the tail of previous region and head of the next region, I can select a longer section and then delete the offending "ghost" region. So, it appears as if PT is holding on to previous edits in the playlist, and will then duplicate the file that region belongs to when doing a "Save Copy".

I haven't tried to reproduce this, but it has happened on several sessions recently. I'm on version 7.3.1.

Bob

[dodlum]

Just out of curiosity I checked this. Booted up the computer - opened pro tools and opened a large session I had been working on for a while.

I did shift + command + U followed by Shift command B and a lot of regions were removed. I did it again and more regions were removed. I did it once more and one more region was removed.

Then I saw a region that I knew was not being used in the session, so I tried to remove that manually but was told it was being used in a track or in the undo queue. Next I reopened the same session and did shift + command + U followed by Shift command B again, and this time it removed everything that shouldn't be there.

Until this thread I have never checked wether or not shift + command + U followed by Shift command B worked as I always presumed it did.

Something not quite right here, and hardly confidence inspiring.

David