Audacity Forum

Yes when you save the project and close it the files are deleted but the issue is when you save the project the files are still there. but discarding items from the Undo history by selecting "History" from the View menu seems to resolve the issue. Thanks again

I See the issue now, is there anyway of not copying compressed files to _data folder everytime you import a song. Due to kids importing sounds into Audacity just to hear what they sound like it causing massive issues with the size of the folders

Same problem on 1.2.6 and 1.3 using either xp sp3 or vista sp2.

Can someone help me. When Pupils Import Tracks into Audacity and remove the ones they dont want the size of the data folder increases even though the tracks are removed. For example i imported a track and saved as a project, the size of the _data file was 15mb i then imported another file removed it...