Deleting Projects and associated media

Hi All:
What is the best way to delete projects in FCP?
Is there a way to delete all the related media, specially the one in Capture Scratch, Render files, Autosave, Waveform Caches, etc etc. Right now I am doing it manually. I would love for a feature that would delete all the media associated with a project?
Thanks
AN

another method not often used is to select all your project media from within the project tab in the FCP browser window, then right-click and choose Make Offline ... and in the dialog chose "Delete from disc"
that will trash everything no matter where you had stored it.
then you can go to the render manager and trash all the renders for that particular project too
so you can clean up a lot from directly within FCP

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