Delete a Project Studio project
- Open the Switch Project list in Project Studio.
- Find the project. Each row has a trash icon on the right.
- Click it and confirm. The project is removed from the list straight away.
The project you have open cannot be deleted. Its trash icon is greyed out, and hovering it says to switch to another project first. Open a different project (or create a new one from the same list), then come back to the list and delete the old one.
What deleting removes, and what it keeps
- It removes the project itself: its timeline, and its render history.
- It does not delete your gallery files. The tracks, images and videos you used in it stay in your gallery.
- It cannot be undone. The confirmation says so, and there is no Trash for projects.
The Music DAW has its own project list
The Music DAW (the audio editor) keeps a separate list. Open My Projects in the DAW header to get Audio Projects. Each row has a trash icon on the right, drawn faint, and it asks Delete this project? before removing it. Like Project Studio, it does not touch your gallery files.
What the delete controls inside a project remove
Project Studio also has delete controls inside an open project. Each of them removes something in the project, never the project itself:
- Right-click a keyframe deletes that keyframe.
- Right-click a marker offers delete, among rename, note and colour.
- Selecting clips and deleting removes those clips from the timeline.
- The media library's remove option takes a file out of this project, leaving it in your gallery.
So emptying a timeline leaves the project in your list, just blank. To get rid of the project, use the trash icon above.
Deleting gallery files is a different thing
Deleting from your gallery removes a file (a track, an image, a video), not a project:
- It goes to Trash and auto-purges after 7 days, and you can restore it from Trash at any point before that.
- Trash also has a permanent delete, and that one cannot be undone.
If a clip is still used on a project's timeline and you delete the underlying file from your gallery, the project keeps the reference but the file behind it is gone.