DigiDesign Digidesign Pro Tools 8.0, Reference Manual

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Chapter 13: The Region List 221
When auto-created regions are hidden,
Pro Tools warns you if the number of auto-cre-
ated regions exceeds a certain threshold, and
gives you the option of deleting them. If you
choose to delete them, all auto-created regions
are deleted at the same time.
To ensure that you keep any specific auto-cre-
ated regions, rename them. When you name a
region, it is promoted from being an auto-cre-
ated region to a user-defined region (see “Re-
naming Regions” on page 219).
Removing Unwanted Regions
In the Region List, you can select unwanted re-
gions and then use the
Clear
command to re-
move them from the session, whole-file regions
can also be permanently removed from the hard
drive on which they are stored.
To find and remove unused regions in a session:
1
Do any of the following:
• For MIDI regions, from the Region List
menu, choose
Select > Unused
.
– or –
• For audio regions, from the Region List
menu, choose
Select
, then choose
Unused
,
Unused Except Whole Files
, or
Offline
(as ap-
propriate).
2
After all unused regions are selected, choose
Clear
from the Region List menu.
3
In the Clear Audio dialog, do one of the fol-
lowing:
• Click
Remove
to remove the unused regions
from the session.
– or –
• If clearing a whole-file audio region and
you want to permanently remove the au-
dio file from your hard drive, click
Delete
.
When deleting audio files for multiple regions,
Pro Tools presents a warning dialog for each au-
dio file.
To bypass repeated warning dialogs:
„
Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac) the
Delete
button in the Clear dialog. This perma-
nently deletes each successive audio file from
your hard drive (for each of the unused regions)
without any further warning.
The Clear command cannot be undone.
Clear Selected dialog (audio regions)
Use this “power delete mode” with caution:
Deletion of these files cannot be undone.