What can be deleted

Hello everyone, I'm getting out of memory error when ever I try to do anything on fcp 4.5 h.d, I have many months of footage which some I have deleted recently.I am not sure which files at this point that I can delete safely without harming the files that I do want to keep. I don't mind having to re render if thats what I have to do. Thanks for all of your help
fcp4.5 h.d 750gb ram, 160 gig external hard drive.

As I said in my first post, it is rarely the amount of media in a project that causes memory issues.
An FCP project file is really a database with instructions on how to play the media: begin with this clip from here to here, dissolve to THAT piece of media from here to there, etc. You get the picture. In order to be effective, fcp has to keep all that information in active memory. If you've got 30 or 40 sequences in a show, especially on a marginal machine like a ibook, this can cause out of memory issues.
And all it takes is ONE cmyk image to sieze you up. Rather than delete media, make an archive copy of the project, AS OUTLINED ABOVE, and dump the old sequences.
And it's sometimes a good idea to open up the render manager and dump the renders and then re-render. Fewer things for that database to have to remember.
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