> Thanks for the reply.
>
> When I tried this, the file size shrank by a couple of megabytes, but
> not by the amount being used by the audio files. In the cache, I can
> see the the text notes are about 43 MB large. The audio is 360 MB.
> (The backup folder is over a GB large - is it safe to just delete
> these?)
>
> Rudy
>
> On May 22, 5:49 pm, "Patrick Schmid [MVP]" <pdsch...[ at ]nospam.mvps.org>
> wrote:
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> > > I've been having problems with overly large .one files when I recorded
> > > audio for a semester's worth of classes. Now that the semester is
> > > over, I'm trying to shrink my notebooks by deleting the audio files.
>
> > > I deleted all the audio files in a notebook, but the corresponding
> > > audio files in the cache weren't deleted. Naturally, the size of
> > > the .one files in the save location didn't shrink. What do I need to
> > > do to strip the audio files out of a notebook? What's the most
> > > efficient approach to doing this? (My current method is to just walk
> > > through all the notebooks finding the audio files, selecting them and
> > > deleting them. It's very time consuming.)
>
> > > Thank you!
> > > Rudy