Deleting Items and Folders

You can select and delete files and folders in all browsers. If a selected item resides on a read-only volume, it cannot be deleted.

For Catalogs, see Deleting Catalog Items for additional information.

To delete one or more items:

1 Select one or more items.

2 Do one of the following:

Press Delete.

– or – 

Choose Delete Selected from the Browser menu.

3 Pro Tools asks you to verify that you want to permanently delete selected files from disk. Click Delete to proceed, or click Cancel to leave your files and disks unchanged.

To skip the warning dialog, hold the Option key while pressing Delete (or while choosing Delete Selected).

To delete locked files:

1 Select one or more items.

2 Press Command+Delete (Mac) or Control+Delete (Windows).