So instead of going to the render folder and deleting out the projects rendered files - you have to use MC's Media Manager

And when you think you should be able to right click on a bin and choose "rename" or "delete" - you won't find those standard and expected options.  Not that you can't rename them or delete them - focus on the bin and hit the delete key - or retype the name.

And Timeline settings - no chance of using one setting for one timeline and another setting for a second timeline.  Settings are project oriented - so if you want a   

1. Media Creation -  to choose the render or ingest media drives. Settings for Media Creation only apply to the current Project, unless you add your customized Media Creation settings to your Site Settings.  Then they'll apply the way you set them each time you start up

2. Media Tool  - for deleting a project's media and precomputes

3. MDV  - A free program for moving media clustered by a specific project at the folder level
  MDV_AVID_20jul08.zip

 

1. Double Clicking on Bin at Settings you open the Bin Settings which are very useful for many aspects.

2. There you can choose if the clips at a bin will open at a pop up monitor or will load on preview monitor
 
3. Or you can enable edit straight from the bin! or enable the Super Bin which I always use instead of bins

4. You can also decide the auto save time or the items stored on the Attic folder (4).

Before you open MDV make a folder on your backup drive.  (FWIW I make a complete Avid Media folder structure on the Backup drive    for example  X:\Aviid MediaFiles\MXF\1)

Open MDV and select all of the drives
Press Scan
Select (click on) your Project name
All of the files in that project will now appear in the media box
Ctrl A will select all of those files
F5 will COPY those files.
Select the file path to the folder you have just created on your backup drive.
You now have the originals and a complete backup.   
(F6 instead of F5 will MOVE all of the selected files)

FWIW I rename my backup drives "Avid MediaFiles" folder to "ProjectNameDate Avid Mediafiles".  When you need to use this project again deleteing the "ProjectNameDate" from the folders name will allow you to instantly start editing from the backup drive.

Depending on the version of MDV you are using, if you right click on the project name you will get the option to store project. Selecting this will give you options to save media to separate folders, maintain path etc. This way you will not need to select all and copy. It does it all by itself. Works great I use it for archiving projects completre with media all the time. I think that option is broke in the latest version, but works in the 1 previous to that.
 

1)       Open Media Tool and show current project, all drives, masterclips, pre-compute media and media files.
2)       Select all of the displayed clips and pre-computes
3)       Delete the selected items

All of the media captured, imported, and rendered is now gone from the system for that specific project.

And let me stress very strongly at this point, that even though the media tool permits you to work in an "all projects" mode, DON'T DO IT!

After deleting the media as prescribed above, back up the specific project folder inside the "Avid Projects" master folder, if you so desire, and then delete. You can also delete a project from the select project window. Find the matching folder in the Avid Attic folder and delete that as well.

You're done. That project and all of it's media has been completely deleted from your system. Keep in mind that if you had "borrowed" any media from that project to use in another project via the "open bins" command, that's gone now, too. To avoid this, use the consolidate function.

I save all asset files such as any files supplied to me by the client like photos or music or whatever.  I also save Photoshop files/After Effects projects and rendered Comps, my DVDStudioPro project and the VideoTS folders and pretty much anything that I might need in order to re-create the job if they come back and need a revision or re-purposing. 

I also save the Avid Project Folder (with all of the Bins etc)  Once all of these elements are saved, Consolidate the final sequence to a drive that I use for archiving my projects.  Once everything is Consolidated, I can then open the Media Tool and feel confident about deleting anything related to the project that lives on my original drives.  

 I would never delete the project because if you need to re-visit the project for whatever reason all of your work will be gone.  Saving the Project (which includes Bins and ultimately your Sequences) saves all the metadata for the project and you could then Batch Capture or Batch Import or whatever to fill in the missing media and bring the project back to life.  If you delete the project, you'd have to start all over.  (Kenton)

DO NOT delete the project from the select project until UNTIL AFTER you have deleted the associated media files, or you will be left with dozens, hundreds, or thousands of orphaned media files and precomputes floating around on your media drive. When you want to move media clustered by a specific project at the folder level, use MDV. For deleting a project's media and precomputes, use the built in Avid media tool. That's what it's there for.   (Larry Rubin)

AVID MEDIA TOOL - tutorial  Lynda Series - 20 seconds (need to buy if you want)

As many of you know by now, Avid creates associated media files for each pointer clip you have in your project and places them in a folder named "Avid MediaFiles" for MXF media, and an "OMFI MediaFiles" folder if you have OMFI media. Copying and moving a project folder is easy, but moving ONLY the associated files for that particular project is a bit more problematic.

For all of it's absolutely superior scheme for media management, Media Composer has one serious deficiency in that regard - the inability to cluster media by project at the folder level. But there is a free down-loadable program known as MDV which will allow you to do exactly that, and many users have found to be an invaluable additional tool. Though the website is primarily in Russian, all the necessary download links and information is in English

Use the media tool.  Select current project and then high light Masterclips.  All the maasterclips for the current project will be displayed.  Next, highlight your sequence and choose select media relatives/  Now all masterclips used in the sequence will be highlighted.  Lastly, go back to the list of all masterclips shown by the media tool and choose reverse selection.  The masterclips not used in your sequence will now be highlighted and delete the unused masterclips

1.  Before you delete your project, have you deleted the ASSOCIATED MEDIA for that project? It's a separate step, using the media tool. \

2.  (I don't see this one in MC5)  Before deleting project (next step), after using media tool to delete media, go to bins, click on hamburger and  choose "set bin display",  select sources, rendered effects and referenced clips, there should be no change in bin names displayed.  Delete them to using media tool.

3. Close project, then hit delete key in choose project screen.

4. To complete your project deletion you should find the Avid Attic and delete the project from there as well.It is well worth checking the Attic once a month as it can grow to many GB's if you let it save its default x number of copies of each bin.

Note from Andrew Action -
I have never deleted a project file. They are normally less than 10MB's and you never know what the future may bring. Murphies law states that 2 days after you delete a never to be reused project you need it.  (hope you have not found the Attic yet Douglas  . 
 
With hard drive space now so cheap I very rarely delete the original capture media either.  I use the media tool to delete all of the precomputes (except for Titles and graphics). Then delete all of the mixdowns. This usually brings even the most unruley projects down to a manageable size.

The Free Russian program MDV will search all Avid Media folders and give you a list of all the Projects it finds whilst showing how much media is attached to each project. (You can select to search just MXF or just OMFI folders if you want to archive your media properly.)  Clicking on a Project name will reveal all media files attached to that Project.  These can then be selected and deleted..... or for me more usefully copied, or moved to a folder of my choice.  (Usually a "projectname" folder that has all the file based sources (including graphics) in it along with a correctly setup Avid MediaFiles folder and OMFI MediaFiles folder)

Experience has taught me that having almost instant access to all the original captured media will often save my bacon or at least free up some extra time to eat it.. 

For example Sometime later a project, demo reel etc some needs a particular shot.    the diminishing old grey cells kick into action and I remember using the shot I want in XXX project.  Then simply bring XXX's media back on line.... (Its already in a proper Avid media folder structure. see 2 paragraphs above)  Open the Bin from XXX project with the final cut sequences in it.  Match frame the appropriate shot back into the source monitor and you are away..

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You could also download this program.  It scans your system for Avid projects.Highlight the project you want to delete and hit delete and it will remove the project, media, attic, etc.  Well, once you get past the confirm delete screen.   www.oceansystems.com/avid/Archiving-Avid-Projects/index.html   Archive-R from Ocean SYstemts  -  $495   Hands11
 

1) The "Avid MediaFiles" folder (for MXF media) and the "OMFI MediaFiles" folder (for OMF media) MUST reside at the root level of the media drive, never inside any other folders or the system will not find the media.

2) The folder names must always be the factory default names listed above (minus the quotes) or the system will not find the media.

3) There can be only one of each folder type on any given media drive

There are 3 specific instances where a media database rebuild becomes necessary.

1) When you encounter unexpected "media offline" issues and you are certain that the associated media files have not been deleted.

2) You launch the media tool and the resulting bin it creates is empty, and the project media is still online.

3) You move associated media files and project files to a different drive on a different Avid platform.

Here is the procedure: Quit the application. Then, from each numerical folder inside the MXF folder inside the Avid MediaFiles folder, delete the two files that identify by type as "MSM Media Database" also identified as "msmFMID.pmr" and "msmMMOB.mdb" . If you have an OMFI MediaFiles folder, delete the same two files. On re-launch, the system will detect the missing files and build new ones at the "Initializing Media Streams Manager" stage. You will see the system go into a scanning and indexing mode at this point.

I must stress that a media database rebuild should NEVER be considered regular preventative maintenance. It should ONLY be performed when encountering the above circumstances.   Larry Rubin

If you are using Windows Vista, the attic folder will be located in drive:/Users/Public/Public Documents/Avid editing application. Regardless of what Mac operating system you are using, the attic folder will be located in Macintosh HD/Users/Shared/Avid editing application/Avid Attic folder.

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