Deleting FCE Files When Production Completed

I have several megs and gigs of footage laying around in several preference files set up in FCE 3 HD. I am done with my work. I want to "clean" out my drives. What is safe to delete, so I won't affect anything else and screw up my system?
Thanks...Henri

What I do is I locate all of my files for my
project.
Make a brand new folder and place it on my Desktop.
I then copy all of the files from my project to that
folder, so I don't move them to a new location on my
hard drive.
I will go through all of my files in all of my drives
and locate the ones for the project. I check all of
the folders I've set up for editing to make sure I
didn't leave a file behind so if I need to make a
last minute change. I also put my project file in
this folder, along with render files, captures and
other random data such as Autosaves.
I will then create an archive of the folder,
Right/Control click and choose "Mark Archive". I take
this archived folder and place it in one of my
external drives.
Then delete the files from my OS X drives and other
drives in which the media is located. Of course, you
can just move the files rather than copy them, it's
just what I do. I always make sure I have all of the
files before deleting, always make sure you've got
everything.
-benny
Benny..
This sounds like a fine idea...Thank you so much..I'm just overwhelmed with what FCE does to all these different levels of data as we collect them over time.
It's kind of a double edged sword...It's got its good and its bad sides..
Thanks again!
Henri

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