Archiving and tidying up

Although I have been "directed" to this particular sub-forum, ie 17b, I'm sure this is a question/answer that applies to any version of the Resolve suite.

I have been using Resolve 17 on some projects that involves lots of video snippets.
Almost finished now and would like to clear up a bit as my hard drive if full of video nonsense, and by nonsense I mean all the clips I have not used and would never use in the future.

Is there a way to archive a project and save all the original USED clips so I can then junk the original video source folders but have the ability to go back and tweak the various video outputs if needed ??

I feel that's a bit of a big ask but it would be so useful right now.

I'm not sure what you mean by "tweak the various video outputs", but normally Media Management with the Trim function does what you are looking for.

There used to be a "Move" option in addition to copy and transcode, but BMD took it out mmmm... around spring 2020, I think? Maybe a little before that. They said there were problems with it, and haven't added it back.

Personally, though, I don't trust Resolve's Media Manage feature enough to let it delete stuff, anyway. It's got a long way to go. I've had problems recently with audio going missing, and it's better at handling some file types than others. There was a recent thread about trimmed .R3D files being buggy.

It would be nice if it at least wrote log files and checksums.

Yes I had a feeling that it would be a tricky process, peppered with loopholes.
Would be SO HANDY right now as I have a hard drive stuffed with bits and pieces - it would be good to rationalise the whole thing.
Will do some more research

One caveat: if you need more than one part of a longer clip, make subclips or Media Management may fail.

My own 'solution' here is, keep everything.

https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=100167523 ... 04&Order=4

wot i do:
1) take the piclok timeline, duplicate it
2) start a new project @ same fame rate
3) import dup'd timeline, that brings in only the media used in that timeline
4) archive the new project, that copies the media used
5) in the orignal project relink the timeline to the archived media
6) delete the new project

wot i do:
1) take the piclok timeline, duplicate it
2) start a new project @ same fame rate
3) import dup'd timeline, that brings in only the media used in that timeline
4) archive the new project, that copies the media used
5) in the orignal project relink the timeline to the archived media
6) delete the new project

Yes, I can see that would work - will give it a go.
Thanks

sorry, you are in v17, can you use the new feature of exporting timeline and use the media as "original"?