N5.5.5 Still no fixes for these:

Also still unfixed - project cleanup function.
This has been broken pretty much throughout the whole N5 cycle.

You’re right. Cleanup feature is not working !!! What a mess… I just wanted to cleanup all my 2012 folders so as to minimize my backups, no way !!

Is the cleanup issue reported in some bugs and issues list? Couldn’t find it…

Should anybody know about?

Anybody using cleanup feature ??

Can we have some feedback from Steiny, Please…

Used it yesterday. Worked as described.

Chewy

Hi Chewy, are you using N5.5.5? It’s definitely not working here. Files list is desperately empty, I made a short test with a small new project just to be sure, 7 files, deleted 6 files from project, deleted from library, 1 file left in project, no file in library’s trash, still 7 files in Audio folder. Cleanup files list stays empty, no file found…

I used cleanup function so often in the past (N4), I don’t understand what’s happening now…

Yes, I’m on 5.5.5.

Chewy

Waow, ununderstandable… :slight_smile:)

I tried all I can, no way to make it work…

I do not know-- we are on different platforms, right? Maybe that has something to do with it.

And, for what it’s worth, sometimes system and installation-specific gremlins do pop up. Like my weird little thing with the “open options” dialog on startup listing a never-ending number of files. I trashed prefs… haven’t reinstalled because it’s not that big of a deal… but it is inexplicable.

Hope it works out for you.

Chewy

Are you sure that all your files are in the project folder, and not refrenced to another location?
Cleanup can only work after performing a “prepare archive”.


Fredo

Hi Fredo,

Sure I did, I’ve been using cleanup feature for so many years. But who knows, that’s why I tried a small test project. Project folder doesn’t contain anything else than one Nuendo project, Audio & Images folders, 7 files in each folder. 6 files have been deleted from project, 1 file left in project and pool (the file is located in the right audio folder inside current project folder). Prepare archive has been done, project saved once again then. No file detected in cleanup window, it stays empty… No way…

BTW what is the “Clip Packages” folder which is created after “prepare archive”?

@Chewy, W7-64bit here…

It looks like cleanup feature is working by some and not working by others. Is there anything in bugs and issues about this problem?

I know it’s not a feature one uses daily so feedback may be weak. But it’s a main feature. Sure there’s a partial turnaround by saving the project in a new folder. Ok when having one single project in folder. If not, we’re back to the starting point.

Please help !

Following,

To make it trustworthy and clear, I created a test project (N5.5) : 7 files, 6 of 7 deleted from project and pool, one single project in folder. So, still 7 files in Audio folder, only one in project. Cleanup list stays empty.

Closing N5.5, opening N4.3.0 then. Cleanup, the 6 missing files are in the list !!!

Still nothing about ?

Nope… apparently its only you, Neil and myself who use this feature.

sigh
rsp

That is not entirely true, as indicated above.

Chewy

sorry Chewy, I was trying to be sarcastic. Because clearly it is of either very very low importance or exceedingly difficult to fix.
rsp

Yeah, I know… and I fast-fired a hyper-literal Aspergergian knee-jerk, which is kind of lame.

Sorry about that.

Still… it’s worth considering that there are at least a few here for whom it’s working fine, right? On at least a couple of platforms as reported thus far… so it would be interesting to figure out what gets in the way of it working for you and the others.

Just as I would like to know why I can’t limit the number of files in my “recent” list. I have no trouble with cleaning up projects, but my “recently opened” box is a maddening mess of directory paths and redundant filenames.

Good luck to all of us,

Chewy

:slight_smile:
No problem,
we are brothers in arms.


It really isn’t working for anyone here…well I say that badly… it isn’t like it is broken only on some machines and it isn’t on others…some ppl use it differently than others.

for me who wants it to remove any audio file, or at least notice that an audio file in a folder is not attached to any project in that folder, it is busted…I am not really sure for those who it is ‘working’ for, use it.

rsp