How do I delete projects

[dwight01]

Once I've finished with a project, and exported what I want to save as an .aiff file, I want to totally delete the project. Everything. All of it. All .aup files and all .au files. I can't find how to do this. Please help. Thanks!!!

[kozikowski]

I've often wondered that. I have no idea because in spite of doing substantial production work in Audacity, I don't use Projects. I don't need multiple channel productions or do any of the other things that make Projects valuable. I export capture masters at the beginning, edit my brains out and export deliverables at the end. No Projects.

Maybe one of the other elves uses Projects.

Koz

[waxcylinder]

This Elf has responded to a similar post befoer - fortunately I managed to dig it out:

There is no Delete Project function in Audacity - you have to do it manually - it has been requested as a Feature Request.

An Audacity project called <project_name> consists of a number of things
1. a top level master project file called <project_name>.aup
2. a folder at the same filing level called <project_name>_data
3. and within the folder a sub-folder structure with lots of little .au files - segments of the recording (mainly audio clips - but a couple of them are graphics files)

So you need to delete the .aup files and their related folders - and note that this will NOT remove them from the recent files list in Audacity.

WC