Deleting Unused Audio

I'm having a problem deleting unused audio clips. This is what I do.
1. Open a template
2. Save it as a project before I begin recording.
3. After recording I open the Audio Window. select unused and hit delete
4. Click on File > Project > Clean Up.
It's strange...even after I delete audio from the Audio Window it tells me that I do not have anything to clean up. Further, when I go to the project file it often has 5 times the amount of audio clips in the project folder than in the actual song.
Any ideas about what I'm doing wrong?
Stevetothink

control/delete (asks...are you sure??) deletes the files of the drive. just hitting delete, them takes them off the audio file list.

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Hi guys,
The question is fairly simple:
How to delete unused audio files in a project?
I can't manage to find the answer in the manual,... all I could find is how to delete audio outside used regions!
But in the projects I use, I have loads of outtakes which I don't use in the project anymore, and now, I would like to delete them of the audio folder to save space on the HD.
Can Logic select automatically the takes in the audio files folder which are not used in the project and delete them??
Because there is hundreds of audio files per project, and +/- 50 projects, I just can't do it manually.
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Whoops! Yes, I knew that but a cow flew by... Sorry!
The procedure I follow is to do what I described then Save as Project, creating a project folder. That way only the required audio is saved to the folder and I delete all temporary stuff. However, if you have folders with shared material, it's much harder and would require you to go through all your projects doing Save as Project before you could delete your old working folder.
When doing day to day work, best practice is to create a new folder and only use Save as Project when you're working on stuff. Shared material (eg sample libraries etc) can go elsewhere and you can get Logic to copy those to the project folder automatically.
Otherwise, Shift-Backspace in the Audio window, as you rightly say
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StaSh, thanks for your reply. There are some things I don't understand here. If you could clarify it would be great!
the future only works on things that are in the
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