Can I delete failed save files?

My overall goal is to take my higher resolution FCPX project and export it as a web playable smaller movie. I tried export movie, but ran into the problem I'm going to ask about. Next up I'll try exporting using Compressor Settings, that'll probably achieve what I want.
So, as I went through the export movie steps, expecting to see something that would ask me about the dimensions of the movie (it never did ask), I let it go ahead and do its thing. After clicking Save I just saw the cursor spinning, so I went to bed.
This morning I found that it has filled my drive, and there were 14GBs of High Quality Media files. I had to force quit FCPX.
Now I have the original project, with a file structure of Final Cut Events/eventname/Original Media, etc, and also Final Cut Projects/New Project/Render Files/Thumbnail Media/ and High Quality Media and Peaks Data too.
Deleting All Render files for the event doesn't remove those files. Is there a built in way to delete the failed-save files, or can I safely manually delete the files? At least the 14GB of high quality ones?

I believe those folders were made during the export stage, certainly the "New Project" name is what I let it use. The Final Cut Events folders do seem to have the original media, so I'll give it a try deleting the high quality export files.
Thanks for the encouragement!

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