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I’m still fairly new to Ableton so I don’t have a ton of sets and projects yet, but I probably spent about an hour yesterday deleting a couple gigabytes worth of wave files from the library > samples > recorded folder (horrible vocal takes and so on from sets I’d already ditched and deleted). And even though I currently have 800+ GB of hard drive space on this computer, I’m pretty meticulous about keeping things cleaned up.

Does anyone know if there’s a way to adjust my settings so that when I delete a set, all the audio I recorded gets deleted, too?

If you save the Live set before beginning recording, then Live will put the recorded sample in the Samples directory within the project itself rather than in the global temp location. That way you can use the Manage Files thing to identify unused samples and delete them etc.

-Luddy

Thanks, luddy! I'll do that from now on.

This should also make it easier for me to transfer the audio in sets from one computer to another.