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When closing sets, Live asks if you want to delete unreferenced samples, but there's no way of knowing which samples are to be deleted - you get the first few in the message dialogue only!

I've done it before, dropped a loop in, then later decided I didn't want it in that particular set, and clicked yes to delete, and it's gone forever, regardless of whether it's used by another set!

Cubase & Logic have their pool and audio windows respectively letting you know what files you are using. Even QuarkXpress has a usage function!

I've been messin round with a midi pedal to record guitar in a set and generated lots of unwanted files, but daren't delete these in case I delete something else!

Grrr....

who can confirm? does it really behave this way? i guess because i use live somewhat differently than most, i've never considered this to be the way it works.

when i get the 'delete unreferenced' dialog, i've always taken it to be deleting only things which were recorded during the creation of that particular set, then trashed.

a quick test seemed to confirm this. if i open a new set, drag a sample in, then delete it, it doesn't ask me if i want to "delete unreferenced samples" when i close the set.

are there two dialogs similar to this? i just noticed that it says "do you want to delete the temporary samples in \Temp-1" if i've deleted a new recording.

It does truncate the list of files, which is kind of painful. A listview instead of cramming that whole string into a dialog box might be good

timothyallan wrote:It does truncate the list of files, which is kind of painful. A listview instead of cramming that whole string into a dialog box might be good

yes that would be a very good feature.

ok sorry i got a bit clearer on this now i think. it asks to delete when you remove samples while working on the set in whose sounds folder the sample is.

in that case, i think saving self-contained as a rule will prevent problems with this, for me anyways.