Cleaning a project's audio folder.

Usually what I do is a "Save As " after doing a bunch of edits and deleting old audio tracks & performances that are no longer needed in my project....
When I go to do a save as the dialog box will reference the original project in the per project folder ...
I make sure that I have the copy all audio box on the lower left checked .
Instead of typing in a new name I will just click on the SONAR file itself in the folder and choose that as what I'm looking to keep .
Then I hit save , (usually as normal ) what happens next is the box will come up with the SONAR project information .
After clicking OK a new dialog box will come up stating "the name of the song  and this file already exists "
replace  it ? that box will have a yes or a no in it ...after hitting yes I'm good to go ...
IIRC , the project has been cleansed of all the extra files I no longer need . Only what I have kept and saved during the save as  will now be in my SONAR project ...
 
hope that helps ,
 
Kenny
 

I often do a "Save As" to a new folder. This will only save the project with the files that are currently in use by the project at the time of the save. All the deletes and extraneous files won't be saved with the new project, you are left with a clean project, and then can delete the original project folder and all those unwanted files. This is also a good way of defragging the project as the computer will most likely save the project as one contiguous section on your HDD.
I'm not sure Kenny's method will delete the files that are no longer in use.
There has been some discussion over the years about Cakewalk making a better "Clean Audio Folder".

rebel007
I often do a "Save As" to a new folder. This will only save the project with the files that are currently in use by the project at the time of the save. All the deletes and extraneous files won't be saved with the new project, you are left with a clean project, and then can delete the original project folder and all those unwanted files. This is also a good way of defragging the project as the computer will most likely save the project as one contiguous section on your HDD.
I'm not sure Kenny's method will delete the files that are no longer in use.
There has been some discussion over the years about Cakewalk making a better "Clean Audio Folder".

It is possible that you may be right ...for some odd reason the way I mentioned in my post is how I do it when I keep it on my C drive ...once I have a little steam rolling I always do a save as to an external HD and add the name of the song I'm working on w an ending tag ex  Mix 1 , Mix 2 ...
thanks for pointing  that out ...I'm too lazy to go back and edit my post ...i need some sleep  lol
 
Kenny