Deleting Catalog Items

When you delete a folder or item from a Catalog, Pro Tools lets you choose whether to delete only the alias from the Catalog, or also delete the original files from the disk.

To delete an item from a Catalog.

1 Open a Catalog and select one or more items.

2 Do one of the following:

Press Delete.

– or – 

Choose Delete Selected from the Browser menu.

3 When prompted, do one of the following:

To remove the aliases for the selected items from the Catalog, click Aliases.

– or – 

To delete the selected items from disk (and remove their aliases from the Catalog), click Files.

Deleting Folders in Catalogs

Deleting a folder from a Catalog does not delete the folder on disk (even if you choose to delete all files from disk). Because Catalogs are “snapshots” of items, their aliases only include files that resided in the corresponding folder at the time the Catalog was created. To avoid potential data loss, folders are never deleted from disk, even though you might choose to delete Files instead of Aliases.