I have many old projects hanging around in my Avid system and I'd like to delete them and all clips, project info, etc. so as to free up some space. Could someone walk me through the process of removing all this junk without disturbing current projects?  Thanks in advance for the help!

This is how I'd do it:

1. Open the Media Tool

2. Display the projects you want to delete

3. Display all drives

The media tool should now be showing all media associated with the project you selected in step 2 on all drives.

4. CTRL+a to select all.

5. Press Delete

Note the warnings about deleting media, and how difficult your life will be if you delete something you didn't mean to.

6. Press OK

Now all the media associated with the project you selected in step 2 is gone.

7. Exit Media Composer

8. In Windows, delete the project folder for the project you selected in step 2.

Repeat as needed.

Hope that helps.

Be careful when deleting pre-computes and renders. 

Make sure you haven't copied any clip or file to another bin or project for use in something else.

If, when deleting render files, it asks you if you want to delete the original file (I believe that's how it's phrased, but it could be similar words meaning the same thing) it means the original clip or precompute that you have rendered.

You can delete clips and files that you don't want to delete if you're not careful. I wasn't careful once, and it caused a world of hurt - as well as hours of batch importing media that I lost.

Display the projects or select the projects?

bushfilm:

Display the projects or select the projects?

When you open the media tool you get the select media dialog box (the one with the two colums - one for projects and one for drives). Steps 2 and 3 are done in that dialog box.