Used media not listed / Sound missing in archive files

Hello everyone

I have following two problems:

1)
Media I only use in a Fusion composition will be listed with a "0" (zero/not used) in the media pool, and this is quite weird to me (I think it doesn't make a difference if the Fusion composition itself is put on a timeline or not).

This is really annonying because I only noticed after I had erased some media I though was useless because not used anywhere (which was not the case).

The medias still are on my harddisk, so nothing critical here, but when you want to clean up before you pack an archive of the project or even simply delete the media of your hard disk because you believe it is not used, that could generate quite bad suprises I guess.

2)
I recorded my voice within Resolve with Fairlight but when I packed an archive because I needed to move the project to another computer, the files (named FL-capture and ending with .pfl or wav) were not packed with the rest of the media into the archive file. Very annonying!

Maybe I do a logical mistake in my workflow for those two problems (I am open to suggestions how to handle it better!), but I just wanted to check if it's only me or if this could be something to optimize for those who adapt the software.

Thanks!
Noukita

The first scenario is why I have a policy.

DON'T DELETE ANYTHING.

Decide for how long you wish to keep the original media, and always keep all of it for that long.

Hi Jim, thanks for your answer, that's certainly a fondamental rule, you're right

But sometimes I have long projects with lots of change while I am limited with my disk space (and with my budget to buy more too, unfortunately).

So it would help a lot if I could properly trust the counts in the "Usage" column of the Media Pool (which apart of this Fusion problem seems to work well to me). I posted this in the request forum, let's see!

Cheers,
Noukita