Render files not deleted

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Render files not deleted

When I finish a project, I do File->Delete Generated Library Files and tell it to delete everything.

When I look at the fcpbundle contents (after exiting FCPX) I see that it did delete the "Transcoded Media" content (proxies and optimized media), but in the Render Files, there is still lots of stuff there (1/2 a Gig in the Thumbnails directory, way less in the Peaks Data, but it's certainly not empty).

Is there a reason for this? Thanks.

MacBook Pro, macOS High Sierra (10.13.1)

Posted on Dec 13, 2017 2:15 PM

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Tom Wolsky

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Dec 14, 2017 9:15 AM in response to Barry0706

Thumbnails are the filmstrip icons. Peak data are the waveform displays. if you work with a lot of projects or a lot of filmstrip browser views especially on multiple monitors these can build up. I generally prefer to keep the cache, like the media, external to the library. That way to do a real clean up, including dumping analysis files, which can be surprisingly large, you can simply dump the cache bundle and let the everything build everything the next time you open it.

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Barry0706 Author

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Dec 14, 2017 9:17 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

Thanks Tom. I'll do that. (I suspect that FCP may have deleted them and just regenerated them immediately.)

Too bad there's not a set of Defaults for the Storage Locations so we don't have to change it every time we start a new library. (Yep...I'll submit feedback.)

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