How to Archive Encore CS4 Project?

How to Archive Encore CS4 Project?
The goal is to archive the minimum number of files necessary to restore an Encore project. I would let Encore regenerate configuration and transcode files. The Encore project would use dynamic links to Premiere sequences. I would not want to delete anything which would prevent me from immediately building a DVD once the assets were transcoded.
I believe you can delete the
1) "cache" folder
2) "Sources\Transcodes" folder
Do not delete the
1) "Sources\Menus" folder since it has the menus
The "Sources" folder contains numerous "xxx_ses" folders. It is unclear if deleting them causes problems.
It is unclear what the "Sources\Video" folder does.
Thanks in advance.

Encore has no archiving features, so you would be taking some risk here as manually archiving Encore projects is not a supported workflow.
If you're OK with taking on the risk, then yes, you can delete contents of the cache and Sources\Transcodes folders. You can also delete all the session folders, as long as you are not re-using assets in the project. If you are not using the menus in the project, you can also delete the contents of Sources\Menus.
I believe that Sources\Video contains rendered slideshow transitions, but I could be mistaken. What do you have in it?

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