PSE 8 - can I delete Previews?

I have a bunch of photos I had moved off an old hard drive to CDs with PSE3. They showed in the organizer as "offline media." I have been moving them to my hard drive (E:\My Pictures\foldersxxx). For whatever reason, sometimes it went well and I was able to move them in PSE 8, keeping tags etc. Some other CDs didn't cooperate, and I moved them with Windows Explorer, went through and re-tagged them in PSE 8, and then deleted the thumbnails with the red circle from my "offline media" folders. I have just discovered the "previews" folders on my C:\ drive, and if I read the information right in the help manual, that's where small thumbnails for offline media are stored. Now that I have no offline media, can I delete all of those, or is that where the thumbnails for the entire organizer reside? I hope that makes sense. Thank you.
Bev

The thumbnails reside in a different file, thumb.5.cache. If there are no more files lised under Offline Media in Display > Folder Location view, you should be able to delete the files in the Preview folder.

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