I'm an inveterate saver e.g. I've got a garage full of screws, brackets, spare parts, tools etc that I know I'll never use - or will I?? What my wife refuses to believe is that I know exactly where everything is and I can put my hands on anything if the need should arise

I reckon it's purely a matter of personal preference as long as you've got plenty of free space on C: - I like to keep it at no less than 50%.

I go by the old saying, if you haven't used it in a year, you will never use it (except for screws, bolts and nuts). I did a recent clean out and found a battery charger for a camcorder that I haven't had for 3 years ! I didn't even remember what it was.

I don't save things long term on my system drive ("c"). External USB connected hard drives are very cheap. I just bought a 2Tb external hard drive for $69 (US). If you are using the c drive for the projects, you need all the room you can get.

I would save only the last version and the one before that and also select to "Pack the project Materials". Go to file, export, pack project materials. .
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Hi Jenny -

As you can see in the posts by Longedge & stevek, it's a matter of personal preference & workflow.

If you methodically & consistently work through your projects and pack them for storage/reference at the end, much of the loose content (not in sub-folders) of C:\Users\UserName\Documents\CyberLink\PowerDirector\11.0 will be backed up in your individual packed project folders. That would include the images in "Croped Pictures".

The same would apply if you designate a particular output folder for each project (i.e. not the PD default)... project files, snapshots, modified audio files, produced files...

In my case, after packing the project I manually include a copy of the produced video in the folder. That makes everything in the "output" folder a duplicate. Particular graphics or audio clips that I may wish to use in the future are renamed & stored in separate media locations.

So - every now & again - it's worth having a cull. Just be careful to check for any loose screws, bolts or camcorders you'd forgotten were there!

Some of the sub-folders in C:\Users\UserName\Documents\CyberLink\PowerDirector\11.0 (My Titles etc.) contain custom items. I leave them as they are.

Cheers - Tony
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Hi guys, thanks for your opinions. Lol...nuts and bolts. That's me with videos, tapes, dvds, cds, old audio tapes!!!, etc etc.

Hey Tony, thankyou for that. It was one of your toots that I was REALLY interested in. I learned to 'save as' occasionally so I have different incarnations of my project.
I also learned that the export button can be my best friend. From then on, I always make a designated output folder on my desktop, put all the music files etc in it. I output the production to it too.
At end, I add all the clips, unused clips, music I might like in the future and the made production, into the timeline with a small few minutes break between the real thing and the extras. Then I export the packed file. I save that to my external hard drives ( x 2) .

Hence the question, does the document folder Cyberlink>P.D.>11 have anything in it I will still need? Sounds like you don't think so. Neither do I. If the project has already output successfully then all the different saves of the project are probably irrelevant if I've saved the bits and pieces and output file to the packed folder.

...I get queasy when I'm about to delete things..... Jenny