Need help deleting unused swatches in CS4

I upgraded from CS3 to CS4, and simultaneously switched platforms from windows to mac osx. Now I can't find the option for deleting all unused swatches in the swatch palette menu and I'm starting to feel insane because I've run several searches and no information about this is popping up anywhere. Can anyone help?

That's one way, I guess. But in CS3 I was able to select all unused swatches and then drag them to the trash. That way I could still have my default swatches for new projects. But I guess this feature was removed for CS4?

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Hi Friends
Use this script it will help ful.
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Try this script it will help ful.
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