Managing unused samples across project in +Drive for removal

[Hitachii]

The only threads I found related to sample memory and the +Drive all involved moving samples in and out of projects, something I do fairly often with the wonderful Elk-Herd utility.

However my 1 gig is running low, and there’s many unused samples on my DT. If my understanding is correct, you can only scan for used samples in an open project, but not see which samples are/aren’t being used throughout all projects on the DT.

So I’m here to ask if there’s a way/trick/efficent-manual-method of removing unused samples from the plus drive. Thanks in advance for any answers, or in the inevitable case of someone linking me to where this discussion has already happened!

[emadb]

There was few threads on this forum but the answer until now is: There is no way to automatically remove unused samples.
It’s one of the most requested feature so I hope that in the next firmware release it will be present.
Until now, I try to pay attention at what I put on the +Drive.

[kryten42]

This process helped me clean up unused samples from the +Drive. It’s a combination of elk herd/chrome browser Dev mode/scripts

+ Drive cleanup

There is a way how I clean up a mess on Digitakt with using of elk-herd application and a couple of scripts. I have a few Live projects on my Digitakt which contain samples I would like to preserve. Say I would like to remove all samples from drive except them. I copy all samles from Digitakt with Elektron Transfer to my computer. Then I connect to Digitakt with elk-herd app, go to the tab Project and fetch one of the projects. I open the console in Chrome and write a line: $('.bank-name').…

[memac]

Transfer version 1.4 allows the removal of unused samples on +drive pretty easily.

1. Back up all the projects - the files will have all samples used by the project embedded.
2. Delete everything from the DT
3. Restore the projects you care about. Only the used samples will be restored.

[evenmind]

Coming back to this years later.
I’m planning on cleaning up my DT +drive and the three steps mentioned above seem a good way to do so.
However, I’m wondering if the folder structure will be the same after this process?
For example, I have a folder path as follows:
DRUMS/KICKS/DFAM. When I back up projects that use samples from that folder, then delete everything (projects and samples) from DT, then restore the projects needed. Will the respective samples sit in the same folder/subfolders again?
Has anyone tried this?