Compacting sessions

[JonesH]

Hi!
I hope this hasn't been asked too many times before.
I want to compact my session; I've done all edits and such so now I want to select all my regions and compact them into sound files so that I can throw away all the leftover parts from the audio files.

This should be simple, I expected and selected all (active regions); trying the compact command on all selected regions with a padding setting of 1 s. This produced remarkably little results. The regions are still only part-regions of larger sound file regions wich I can't delete for obvious reasons.

What am I doing wrong? Thank you.

[Slim Shady]

You're using the wrong command. You want to consolidate the audio, not do the compacting thing. Once all tracks are consolidated, you can then remove/delete the old/unused smaller regions from the region bin.

[JonesH]

Yes, that would have been the obvious solution, but I want to be able to adjust my fades afterwards, not print automation and fades to audio and so on. Surely there is a way to do this?
Or do I have to manually consolidate every region and then delete the other regions?