Media Consolidation time

It's time for some media consolidation.
I have a 13 part series shot on DV. I have a master Project with all bins and sequences, graphics etc. We have shot about a hundred reels so far (I anticipate at least another 20) I have 1.5tb of storage.
I'm about half way through and shooting is still going on.
I don't want to run out of storage space and am concious that I have lots of footage that hasn't made into the cuts that I need to get rid of.
It is a property restoration show that follows projects over as much as a year so I will need to use shots from the first day in the last programme etc so I can't simply use the media manager to chuck away media used in a sequence because I might have used it in another episode.
So how do I simply chuck away the shots that I haven't used?
I had the foresight to give each shot a real name in the clip name (RN23 exteriors) so tracking shots down is easier.
I'll be frank - the media manager has me stumped -I've read Larry Jordans guise, the FCP manual, a couple of other things I've seen and still I have zero confidence.
Any thoughts, anyone?
as ever - Muchos Gracias
Lex

I don't find there to be anything mysterious about Media Manager. It's consistently worthless.
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You won't get anything but a hearty endorsement of that statement from me but, just to waste some bandwidth:
Posited: Media management is a fundamental operation of a competent NLE. Does this mean that FCP is fundamentally incompetent?
Evidence: The language used at the interface and the operating presentation of Apple's MM suggests it was created by non-Macintosh people who knew nothing about video for a non-video application and then (miserably) shoehorned into FCP.
We hear endless complaints about Media Manager.
We hear no positive things about it, none.
And yet Media Manager appears to function flawlessly at the big houses where FCP is the video workhorse. Why isn't there more and louder squealing from the major players in the business? Paranoia, but I think there IS another version of FCP.
bogiesan

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