Can I delete Original Media folder after its all been transcoded?

So i remember reading that most footage you import should be transcoded. Though Final Cut Pro "works natively with formats like h.264 and dslr movs, it is better to have it optimized into Pro Res and transcoded." Having listened to that, I have Optimized all of my media that I have importated however now I have double the media in my FCP Events folders because I have both Original Media and Transcoded media. This leads me to a few questions...
1) Can I delete the Original Media folder if all my my media is transcoded? How will this effect my timeline and projects? Will this free up space? How can I verify all of my clips have bene transcoded?
2) Can I delete the Transcoded Media and go back to using the Original Media? Will this mess up my timeline and projects that I have started editing or will it revert the media in my projects back to the Original? Which would run faster/better performacne Original Or Transcoded? I shoot all of my footage on a Canon 7d DSLR 24/30 fps 1080p, H.264.
3) What workflows have you used so that you dont dobule anything? If this project is a loss, what should I be doing in future events when importing? Should I send to Compressor and transcode there BEFORE I import into FCP. That way I am only importing the Transcoded stuff?
Thoughts?
Mike

1- Yes, you can delete the Original Media folder, FCP will only read from your Optimized Media folder then. But move it to the trash first, then launch FCP X and test it out, before emptying the trash.
2- Yes, again, test it as I mentioned in 1 above. Once you remove either Original or Optimized, it's gone, that's it.
3- Always let FCP do the transcoding, doing it in Compressor gains you nothing. You shold base your decision to optimize on the hardware you're using and the amount of storage space you have available. H.264 is super compressed. ProRes uncompresses it and is more of it's natural file size.

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